MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: WTF? Absurd chaos at Walmart in Wisconsin

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chaos-walmart-woman-karate-son-exposes-dog-steals-food

Notable: Ecuador Hacked After Julian Assange Arrest (ZeroHedge)

Ecuador Hacked After Julian Assange Arrest

Two days after the Thursday arrest of Julian Assange at Ecuador's London embassy, several government websites were hacked; including Ecuador's official website, the Central Bank of Ecuador, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ecuadorian Assembly in the UK, according to Gateway Pundit's Cassandra Fairbanks, who was in London last week and documented the run-up to Assange's arrest. Concurrent with the breach, a hacking group operating under the name "AL1NE3737" released a database containing the full names and passwords for what appear to be 728 Ecuadorian government employees.

Furthermore, Ecuador's sites were hit with Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. According to DefCon Lab. Among those involved in these attacks stand out from the groups / hacker DeathLaw , 5UB5, Cyb3r C0nven Security and Al1ne ( Pryzraky ). DoS actions has consistently been against the Ecuadorian government targets, the country that gave Julian Assange to the UK police." -DefCon Lab

The hacker Al1ne ( Pryzraky ) performed page defacements against and released a list of vulnerable targets related to the government of Ecuador.

Agrocalidad - The Agency of Regulation and Control Fito and Zoosanitario: http://www.agrocalidad.gob.ec/

Metropolitan Transit Agency: http://www.amt.gob.ec/

Instituto Geográfico Militar - Ecuador: http://www.igm.gob.ec/

As noted by Fairbanks, "The cyber attack was reminiscent of 2010’s “Operation Avenge Assange” which was launched by the broader “Operation Payback” effort. The movement lead to hacktivists hitting companies such as PayPal, PostFinance, Mastercard, Visa, and others who had blocked services to WikiLeaks with a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. This is when a website is flooded with fake traffic until it crashes and goes offline."

Following Assange's Thursday arrest, more than 70 MPs and peers signed a letter urging the UK home secretary to ensure that the WikiLeaks founder is extradited to Sweden if Swedish authorities request it. Sweden is considering whether to open a previously-dropped investigation into allegations of rape and sexual assault against Assange. The United States, meanwhile, wants to try Assange for the largest-ever leak of government secrets in 2010. On Thursday, the Justice Department hit him with an indictment that claims the WikiLeaks founder helped former US Army intelligence analyst crack DoD password using Linux. "The indictment alleges that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications," reads a DOJ press release. Materials Manning released included videos of various US airstrikes in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the "Iraq War Logs" and "Afghan War Diary." Assange faces five years in prison if convicted in the Manning case.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-13/ecuador-hacked-after-julian-assange-arrest

Notable: Photos resurface of 'closed-door' meeting between Ilhan Omar and Erdogan

Photos Surface Revealing 2017 ‘Closed-Door’ Meeting Between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Turkish President Erdogan

Conservative Review reporter Jordan Schachtel recently came upon an interesting tidbit in the Tusmo Times, a publication that covers the Somali community in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, area. He found a story there by the Somali-language paper’s founder and editor, Abdirahman Mukhtar, about a “closed-door meeting” that took place in New York City in September 2017 between visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a then-relatively unknown Minnesota state representative named Ilhan Omar.

Omar, a Muslim immigrant from Somalia who won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2018, reportedly led a delegation of Somalis from Minnesota to meet with Erdogan in New York. Erdogan was in town for the annual UN General Assembly meeting and Omar flew in to meet him at a local hotel in downtown New York City.

What is most interesting about this meeting, however, aside from the fact that the President of Turkey agreed to meet with a local Minnesota state legislator, is that it took place in the very same hotel room where Erdogan, either just before or just after his meeting with Omar, met with the assembled top leadership of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.

https://truepundit.com/photos-surface-revealing-2017-closed-door-meeting-between-rep-ilhan-omar-and-turkish-president-erdogan/

Notable: Dems screech over Nunes plan for private chat with Barr (DCExaminer)

PANIC

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-lash-devin-nunes-plan-for-private-chat-with-barr?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_04/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=260

Notable: Greg Craig, former BHO aide pleads Not Guilty to Lying to Justice Dept. (NYT)

Gregory Craig Pleads Not Guilty to Lying to Justice Dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/politics/gregory-craig-pleads-not-guilty.html

Notable: Israeli Airstrike On Northern Hama Destroyed Syrian Long-Range Rocket Launcher

Israeli Airstrike On Northern Hama Destroyed Syrian Long-Range Rocket Launcher

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) lost at least one Maysalun heavy artillery rocket launcher as a result of the recent Israeli airstrikes on the town of Umm Haratayn in northern Hama, a photo released by pro-government activists on April 13 revealed.

Despite the low quality of the photo, the base of the launch rail, the back stairs and the hydraulic outriggers stabilizers can be seen in the remains of the rocket launcher.

Maysalun is a Syrian-made variant of the Iranian Zelzal-2 unguided long-range artillery rocket. The rocket has a range of 210km and a heavy high-explosive (HE) warhead. Israeli sources had accused Iran and Syria of installing guidance systems in these types of rockets, effectively converting them into precision-guided rockets.

While the rocket launcher was destroyed in Umm Haratayn, the new Israeli attack was focused on the town of Masyaf in western Hama. According to RT, Israeli warplanes destroyed the College of Management, the Scientific Research center and the Accounting School in the town. More than 23 people, including 3 Syrian service members, were injured as a result.

According to the available information, Israeli warplanes launched stand-off munitions at their targets from Lebanon airspace. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has launched multiple attacks on Syria in the same way since 2011.

https://southfront.org/israeli-airstrike-on-northern-hama-destroyed-syrian-long-range-rocket-launcher/

Notable: Flynn twitter banner change, Q drops related to waves

General Flynn banner change today and possible related Q drops!

Notable: @45_Schedule: NK legislature replaces key officials

POTUS SCHEDULE

https://www.nknews.org/2019/04/north-koreas-legislature-replaces-key-officials-in-first-meeting-since-election/

https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1117138731918610432?s=19

"North Korea’s legislature replaces key officials in first meeting since election."

*First official photo of North Korea’s newly selected leadership team.

Notable: >>6166181 U.S. Completes Transfer of 47k Declassified docs to Argentine Government

U.S. Completes Historic Transfer of 47,000 Declassified Documents to Argentine Government

Declassification Diplomacy: Trump Administration Turns Over Massive Collection of Intelligence Records on Human Rights and Argentina

Today in a diplomatic ceremony hosted by U.S. Archivist David Ferriero at the National Archives, U.S. officials completed the turnover of some 7,500 CIA, FBI, DOD, NSC and State Department records—47,000 pages in total—to Argentina’s Minister of Justice and Human Rights, German Garavano. Ferriero said that reviewers worked for a total of 32,000 hours to complete the task, which began during the Obama administration and was completed under the Trump administration, and were able to release the documents 97% unredacted.

https://unredacted.com/2019/04/12/u-s-completes-historic-transfer-of-47000-declassified-documents-to-argentine-government-frinformsum-4-12-2019/

Notable: Colorado ‘Red Flag’ Gun Restriction Bill Signed Into Law (Epoch)

Colorado ‘Red Flag’ Gun Restriction Bill Signed Into law

Frenly reminder: Guns are safe-Q

Lawmakers in Colorado signed a “Red Flag” gun bill into law on April 12 that will allow the removal of guns from a person deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. Law enforcement, family, and household members will be able to petition for the temporary removal of a persons right to possess a firearm, after proving with facts that the person poses a significant risk.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/colorado-red-flag-gun-restriction-bill-signed-into-law_2878414.html

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1177

Notable: London police fire shots & seal off Ukrainian Embassy after ‘ramming attack’ on envoy’s car

London police fire shots & seal off Ukrainian Embassy after ‘ramming attack’ on envoy’s car

Police “discharged firearms” and sealed off a street in the western Holland Park area of London after a reported confrontation with a vehicle near the Ukrainian Embassy. Witnesses heard at least 10 gunshots fired.

Ruptly’s footage from the scene shows a sedan with its doors open in the middle of the street and forensic officers examining the area. The location has been cordoned off and a heavy police presence can be seen.

The Ukrainian Embassy described the incident as a “deliberate” ramming of the ambassador’s parked car.

“The police were called immediately, and the suspect’s vehicle was blocked up. Nevertheless, despite the police actions, the attacker hit the ambassador’s car again. In response, the police were forced to open fire on the perpetrator’s vehicle. The culprit was apprehended and taken to a police station,” the embassy said in a statement.

https://www.rt.com/uk/456424-shooting-ukraine-embassy-london/

Notable: Scientologists, Satanism and The Manson Family dig

Scientologists, Satanism and The Manson Family

The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known as the Process Church, was a religious group established in London in 1966. Its founders were the British couple Mary Ann MacClean and Robert de Grimston and it spread across parts of the United Kingdom and United States during the latter 1960s and 1970s.

The Process Church was established by MacLean and de Grimston in London in 1966. The pair had met several years previously, when they were both members of the Church of Scientology. The duo were ejected from the Church in 1962 and married the following year. They started a Scientology splinter group called Compulsions Analysis, which gained new religious elements and developed into the Process Church. Its members initially lived in a commune in Mayfair before moving to Xtul in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They later established a base of operations in the United States in New Orleans. Prosecutors investigating the Los Angeles murders committed by the Manson Family in 1969 suggested that there were links between Charles Manson and the Process Church. Although no proof of such a connection was ever provided, the allegations damaged the Church's reputation.

In the early 1970s, the sociologist William Sims Bainbridge studied the group, producing an in-depth account of its activities. In 1974, MacLean and de Grimston separated. The latter tried to continue the group with a small following, but this folded in 1979. MacLean retained the allegiance of the majority of Church members, reforming the group as the Foundation Church of the Millennium and taking it into an explicitly Christian direction. It was later transformed into the Best Friends Animal Society, based at Kanab, Utah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Church_of_the_Final_Judgment

The Process held that God is made of four separate parts equally worthy of worship – Jehovah, Christ, Lucifer and Satan — and that a person must worship all four in succession to gain enlightenment.[4] Their newsletter was in vogue during the era of flower power, and featured articles about the Rolling Stones, Charles Manson and the like.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Grimston

Notable: Yellow Vest Gilets Jaunes protests Act 22

Yellow Vest Act 22: Clashes in Toulouse, Vikings in Paris

Sporadic clashes with police marred Yellow Vests protests in Toulouse, the city chosen as the ‘capital’ of this week’s anti-government marches in France. Act 22 is the first since a controversial anti-rioting law took effect.

This Saturday marked the 22nd consecutive week of the “Gilets Jaunes” movement as France once again saw anti-government protests, which were held in cities such as Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseilles, and Strasbourg. In the French capital of Paris alone, some 5,000 demonstrators took to the streets, according to the French Interior Ministry.

Unlike some earlier protest gatherings, no major rioting has occurred so far this weekend. However, Toulouse, which was declared a “capital” of this Saturday’s protests, still saw street violence as the protest march there spiraled into clashes with police less than an hour after its beginning.

The protesters were seen throwing stones, bottles, and firecrackers at the officers, who responded with tear gas. Police also blocked several streets and used water cannons to disperse the crowd. At least 23 people were detained in Toulouse following the clashes that left at least two people injured, according to Le Figaro.

More

https://www.rt.com/news/456422-yellow-vests-act-22/

Notable: Did Flynn's twitter banner change recently?

When did General Flynn’s background change? Didn’t see it in notables.

Notable: Heckler shouts about Epstein, Lolita Express at Clinton speaking event

“Bill, This Is Boring!” - Heckler Sums Up Clinton National Speaking Tour

Maureen Callahan of The New York Post attended the event and had this to report:

Now that they’ve been dismissed, defanged and declawed by their own party, Bill and Hillary Clinton are doing what comes naturally: Hitting people up for money.

https://thegoldwater.com/news/43999-Bill-This-Is-Boring-Heckler-Sums-Up-Clinton-National-Speaking-Tour

Notable: Tom Fitton slams [[[Brennan]]]: "unhinged attacks on Trump" (GatewayPundit)

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Attacks President Trump as Cowardly and Unfit For Office

The coup that failed.

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll John Brennan viciously went after Trump and accused the President of being a coward who is unfit for office.

Brennan got triggered after President Trump tweeted his support for dumping illegal aliens into sanctuary cities.

“Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only. The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!” Trump said in a pair of tweets Friday.

Brennan attacked Trump as unfit for office and said his policies are cowardly.

“Your unfitness for office has never been more stark, your lack of humanity never more apparent, your politics never more craven, & your ultimate political ignominy never more certain,” Brennan said in a tweet.

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Attacks President Trump as Cowardly and Unfit For Office

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John Brennan

The coup that failed.

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll John Brennan viciously went after Trump and accused the President of being a coward who is unfit for office.

Brennan got triggered after President Trump tweeted his support for dumping illegal aliens into sanctuary cities.

“Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only. The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!” Trump said in a pair of tweets Friday.

Brennan attacked Trump as unfit for office and said his policies are cowardly.

“Your unfitness for office has never been more stark, your lack of humanity never more apparent, your politics never more craven, & your ultimate political ignominy never more certain,” Brennan said in a tweet.

Brennan went into overdrive after Attorney General Bill Barr dropped the spying allegation bomb on the upper echelons of Obama’s intel agencies during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Brennan ran to the hate Trump media to attack Barr and continued to spread Russia conspiracy theories.

John Brennan promoted Hillary’s fraudulent dossier then lied about it.

He perjured himself in a May 2017 when he said that he did not include Hillary’s phony dossier in the IC report.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton slammed Brennan’s latest attacks on Trump.

“Obama CIA Director John Brennan’s unhinged attacks on Trump help explain Obama admin’s spying abuses targeting Trump. That Judicial Watch had to file this lawsuit shows CIA has something to hide on Obama-era targeting of Trump.” Fitton said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/ex-cia-chief-john-brennan-attacks-president-trump-as-cowardly-and-unfit-for-office/

Notable: Vote to be held on whether to oust MZ from Facebook (@NewsBreaking)

BREAKING: Vote to be held on whether Mark Zuckerberg will be ousted from Facebook

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1117140439428059136

Notable: >>6165297 @45_Schedule: "[NK replaces] key officials in first meeting since election."

https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1117138731918610432?s=19

"North Korea’s legislature replaces key officials in first meeting since election."

*First official photo of North Korea’s newly selected leadership team.

https://t.co/kstJ3QUmjZ https://t.co/vbizFq9z4a

Notable: Wikileaks receives nearly $30k USD worth of BTC after Assange arrest (CryptoGlobe)

Data suggests WikiLeaks has over the years received 4,000 bitcoins in donations, totaling over $22 million.

https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/04/wikileaks-received-nearly-30000-worth-of-bitcoin-after-assange-arrest/

Notable: Dinesh D'Souza and Dan Bongino muse on Swamp rats in the courts

Assured swamp rats have ascended to the courts.

https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1117118400000430080

Notable: Ilhan Omar tweets a wall of text

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1117131634514583552

Notable: Balcony kid killer was previously banned from property

Man accused of pushing child off Mall of America balcony had previously been banned from property

Police said Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, of Minneapolis, was being held on suspicion of attempted homicide.

Aranda's criminal record includes two convictions in 2015 for obstruction of the legal process/interfering with a peace officer, as well as convictions for fifth-degree assault, trespassing and damage to property.

Court records show Aranda was arrested on July 4, 2015, after police said he matched the description of a man throwing things off the upper level of the Mall of America to the lower level. Police say Aranda refused to give his name and resisted arrest. Aranda also was accused of walking into a mall store and sweeping his hand across a display table, breaking glasses.

In October 2015, Aranda was accused of throwing glasses in Twin Cities Grill in the mall. The complaint says Aranda approached a woman who was waiting for the restaurant to open and asked her to buy him something. The woman refused, and Aranda allegedly threw a glass of water in her face and a glass of tea that struck her leg. Aranda was under a trespass notice at the time banning him from the mall until July 4, 2016.

https://twitter.com/MyNBC5/status/1117131689606643712

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/man-arrested-after-5-year-old-reportedly-pushed-from-3rd-floor-balcony-at-mall-of-america/27130934?utm_campaign=WPTZ&utm_content=5cb22991e6dfda0001dd2fb2&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=trueAnthem:+New+Content

Notable: @Bongino: Justice is coming, and D's are PANICKING

PANIC

https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1117130374419832833

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-lash-devin-nunes-plan-for-private-chat-with-barr?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_04/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=260

Democrats lash Devin Nunes plan for private chat with William Barr

Notable: Pencil Neck Schiff: Ilhan Omar is a victim! Reeeeee!

https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1117127615599521794

Notable: @RudyGiuliani: Comey says AG spying comments are "concerning?" You should be concerned Jim…

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1117125659522945024

Notable: FLOTUS: So grateful… #VolunteerWeek

@FLOTUS

So grateful to all the @WhiteHouse volunteers who give their time & talent helping in so many ways. Thank you for all you do! #VolunteerWeek

https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1117120354097487873

Notable: New Palestinian government sworn in (Reuters)

News

New Palestinian government sworn in amid factional tensions

RAMALLAH, GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday swore in a new government headed by a loyalist from his dominant Fatah party, a move rejected by his Islamist rival Hamas as a blow to unity efforts.

Mohammed Shtayyeh, an economist and longtime Abbas adviser, will serve as prime minister of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA). Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Finance Minister Shukri Bishara will continue in their positions.

Shtayyeh was named Palestinian prime minister on March 10, replacing the independent university president Rami Al-Hamdallah. He will run the ministries of interior and religious affairs until new appointees are named for the two posts.

The rival Hamas group that runs Gaza called the move blow to unity efforts that faltered since the two groups signed a new reconciliation deal in Cairo in October 2017, but disputes over power-sharing had blocked the implementation of the agreement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-politics/new-palestinian-government-sworn-in-amid-factional-tensions-idUSKCN1RP0KM

Notable: >>6164676 Hacker group claims stole personal info of thousands of federal officials from FBI

No Wonder They Couldn’t Figure Out If HRCs Server Was Hacked, Or If She Just Left The Door Open

Hacker group claims it stole personal info of thousands of federal officials from FBI

by Alana Goodman

| April 13, 2019 11:09 AM

Thousands of FBI and law enforcement officials could be at risk after having their personal data stolen and published by a group of anonymous hackers, according to a new report.

The hackers accessed three websites affiliated with the FBI National Academy Associates, a nonprofit education and training program for law enforcement officials located near the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., according to TechCrunch.

The stolen data includes around 4,000 member records, including names, email addresses, job titles, phone numbers, and mailing addresses of federal agents and law enforcement officials. The hackers claimed to have stolen “over a million” pieces of data from the breach.

The hackers claim they plan to sell the data on the dark web, and have also posted some of it on their own websites for free to drum up interest from potential buyers and advertise the “interesting” nature of the content.

When asked if the information would put law enforcement officials at risk, one of the hackers told TechCrunch, “Probably, yes.”

“We hacked more than 1,000 sites,” the hacker said. “Now we are structuring all the data, and soon they will be sold. I think something else will publish from the list of hacked government sites.”

The hacker said the group was able to access the information through security vulnerabilities in the websites, and claimed to have stolen the information in order to gain “experience and money.”

Notable: >>6164719 @wikileaks clarifies: no new "dead man switch" dump. Page has existed for years.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1117123131804737541

to believe or not to believe

Notable: James Woods, G Papa roasting [[[Brennan]]]

This delusional communist at one time wielded unimaginable power in the bowels of government.

It is you, #JohnBrennan, and your nefarious ilk the Founding Fathers feared the most.

You are the very embodiment of the “enemy within.”

twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1117120860895109121

twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1116821069648879616

[archive.is/jUIRU]

twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1117104269134401537

Notable: Pessimistic rumblings from International Monetary and Financial Committee

Global economic growth risks skewed to the downside: IMFC

(moar fear porn from the originators of it)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global financial officials on Saturday said risks to worldwide economic growth were “tilted to the downside” due to factors such as trade tensions, policy uncertainty and the sudden tightening of financial conditions.

The heightened risks are presenting themselves against a backdrop of limited policy space, historically high debt levels and heightened financial vulnerabilities, officials said in the joint communique of the International Monetary Fund’s steering committee. The statement was released at the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington.

Earlier, China took a swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies that have sparked a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies, including tit-for-tat tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods.

“The protectionism of some countries has harmed mutual trust among countries, limited the scope for multilateral cooperation, and impeded the willingness to achieve it,” Chen Yulu, a vice governor at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), said in a statement to the International Monetary and Financial Committee, or IMFC.

“Unilateralism and protectionism can only exacerbate domestic imbalances and impair necessary structural adjustments, which can negatively affect the countries concerned as well as global growth,” he said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank/global-economic-growth-risks-skewed-to-the-downside-imfc-idUSKCN1RP0KE?il=0

Notable: Wikileaks Julian Assange indictment pdf

Probably missed the notable and/or discussion about pic and link related. Am assuming that I'm not the only one.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5816940/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-Indictment.pdf

Notable: @TeamTrump Spying Obama Dank Meme and merch

SPY GAMES!

twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1116828864821460997

>//watch the video//

Notable: Military Faces High Turnover of Top Brass; Civilians serving acting posts (via WSJ)

Where do you think they’re going….?

The Pentagon is soon expected to undergo its most dramatic period of turnover at top military levels under the Trump administration. At least 5 of the 7 members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will be replaced this year. –

CHANGES AT THE MILITARY

–Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: Marine Gen. Joe Dunford is retiring; Gen. Mark Milley, now the Army chief of staff, was nominated to succeed him.

–Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman: Air Force Gen. Paul Selva is retiring. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, head of U.S. Strategic Command, was nominated to succeed him.

–Head of the Army: Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James McConville was nominated to succeed Gen. Milley.

–Head of the Navy: Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is retiring. Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Moran was nominated Thursday to succeed Adm. Richardson.

–Commandant of the Marines: Gen. Robert Neller is retiring. Lt. Gen. David Berger was nominated to succeed him.

–Head of U.S. forces in Middle East and Afghanistan: Army Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, has retired. Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the Joint Staff director, succeeded him.

–Commander of European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe: Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti is retiring. Gen. Tod D. Wolters, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Africa and Allied Air Command, was nominated to succeed him.

–Commander of U.S. Africa Command: Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser is retiring. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, was nominated to succeed him.

–Head of U.S. special operations command: Gen. Raymond Thomas III, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, retired. Army Lt. Gen. Richard Clarke, director for strategic plans and policy at Joint Staff, succeeded him.

–Head of U.S. nuclear forces: Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, has been named vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His replacement hasn’t been named.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/turnover-among-military-brass-as-civilians-serve-in-acting-posts-11555061401

Notable: Former HRC aide behind lobbying efforts to Kavanaugh fired from summer job

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1117113514525626369

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/former-hillary-clinton-aide-behind-lobbying-efforts-to-get-university-to-fire-kavanaugh

Hillary Clinton’s former campaign spokesperson is leading a campaign to get Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh fired from a summer teaching job at George Mason University, according to a report.

Demand Justice, a liberal advocacy group run by Clinton’s 2016 campaign press secretary Brian Fallon, is running a Facebook ad campaign targeting students at George Mason University, Fox News reports. Fallon’s ads ask students to sign a Change.org petition to oust Kavanaugh from his summer teaching gig at the university due to sexual assault allegations against him.

A student group called Mason for Survivors has been circulating the same petition since last month. The petition, which has received more than 5,000 signatures, calls on the university to “Terminate AND void ALL contracts and affiliation with Brett Kavanaugh,” release any documents related to his hiring and issue a public apology. The petition also calls on the school to fund more resources for sexual assault victims.

Demand Justice doesn’t disclose its funding, leaving it unclear who is bankrolling the campaign.

Fallon defended the ads in a news release, saying that Kavanaugh “has been credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women whose allegations have not been thoroughly investigated.”

“His confirmation to the Supreme Court does not absolve him of guilt, and he should not be given a platform to teach,” said Fallon. “We stand with survivors and urge the George Mason University administration to fire Kavanaugh.”…

Notable: US Capitol custodial staff allege degenerate activity after hours

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1117091936295366656

Notable: >>6163889 Claire Smith, Mifsud Dig

>>6163902

"3/ Misfud and Claire Smith of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee and eight year member of the UK Security Vetting panel both trained Italian security services at the Link university in Rome and appear to be both present in this phone http://archive.is/YX9jq#selection-341.263-347.99 …"

https://twitter.com/DefendAssange/status/976943598049558528

Notable: UK Police shut down factory after finding 15 slaves/trafficked workers

slavery still happening in modern UK

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6918725/Police-shut-West-Midlands-factory-finding-15-suspected-SLAVES-including-child.html

Notable: Attempted violence vs a Conservative on college campus (@DonJr via Breitbart)

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/04/13/police-investigating-bias-incident-at-south-seattle-college-after-tpusa-president-stalked-by-man-in-suv/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Notable: FBI "Russian Spy" placed in Trump Campaign? (Bezos WaPo; Breitbart)

2nd FBI SPY placed in Trump Campaign

“(FBI Russian spy) Henry Greenberg, who has also used the name Henry Oknyansky, has dismissed reports that he is an FBI informant, saying he has not done any work for the bureau since 2013.”

Russian FBI spy/informant tried to sell Hillary dirt to Roger Stone and to Michael Caputo of Trump 2016 campaign.

Caputo-Greenberg caper:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/12/2016-trump-campaign-adviser-russian-fbi-informant-tried-framing-me-with-clinton-dirt/

Other SPY was UK/ US spy Stefan Halper.

Images of “Russian” agents:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/trump-russia-contacts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b9608db6337b

Notable: DJT RT: Ilhan Omar Never Forget video

DJT RT Illhan Omar video

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116817144006750209

Notable: White House RT: Sen Barrasso (R-WY) shares highlights on tax reform, jobs report

WHITE HOUSE RETWEET

https://twitter.com/SenateGOP/status/1116672310633742339?s=19

Notable: @USMC Tweet: Welcome to 400

Welcome to 400

twitter.com/USMC/status/1117034700860796928

Notable: Friendly reminder: Wikileaks site is comped, but "we have the source" (Q#1595)

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Notable: Minnesota Kid Murderer dig

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Hes from Omar's district

Notable: PANIC: Cindy McNoName re: Trump Human Trafficking Proposal

Cindy McCain Rips Trump’s Human Trafficking Proposal: ‘A Wall is Not Going to Fix This’

Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), ripped a proposal by President Donald Trump to erect a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to blunt the flow of human trafficking in an interview airing Friday.

“The people that are coming over the border, for the most part, are not trafficked individuals,” McCain told NBC News reporter Cynthia McFadden. “It’s people within our own walls, in our own borders, so a wall is not going to fix this, but education will and awareness will and strengthening our laws will.”

“The misnomer in this is that somehow this occurs outside the country, that somehow its another country — not us, ever us. Well, it is very much us,” she continued. “The trafficking I’m talking about with you is domestic trafficking, these are domestic individuals being trafficked.”

McCain serves on the Arizona governor’s human trafficking council and has worked on initiatives to reform laws on the issue since 2004.

McCain recently apologized after law enforcement disputed her claim that she stopped a human-trafficking attempt at an airport in Glendale, Arizona. She made the false presumption because a woman was accompanying a child of “a different ethnicity.”

In February, President Trump said human traffickers were “going through a border where there’s nobody for miles and miles, and there’s no wall to protect,” adding, “they come into our country and they sell people.”

In her interview with NBC News, McCain also criticized the lack of civility in U.S. politics and said that her late husband would have been saddened by the state of Democrat-Republican relations. “I am quite certain he knows what’s going on,” she said. “I know he’d be so upset over this because of the tenor, the lack of inaction on many members’ parts, specifically on members of Congress,” McCain said. “He would’ve been right in the mix saying we’re going to work together, please let’s not fight. That’s who he was.”

She continued: “Oh, he loved a good fight. Heck, yeah. But it was never personal with him. He and Ted Kennedy used to fight like cats and dogs on the floor. but they were the best of friends. I wish we could go back to that.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/12/cindy-mccain-rips-trump-human-trafficking-proposal/

Notable: Assange faces time in "Britain's Guantanamo" (twat cap, via Bloomberg)

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1117096692715859968

Notable: Roger Stone seeks full Mueller report

Trump confidant Roger Stone seeks full Mueller report

President Donald Trump's longtime confidant, Roger Stone, asked a federal judge Friday to compel the Justice Department to turn over a full copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation as part of discovery in his criminal case.

Stone has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to Congress, engaged in witness tampering and obstructed a congressional investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In a court filing late Friday night, his lawyers said Stone is entitled to see the confidential report — which was submitted to the attorney general late last month — because it would help prove their allegation that there are constitutional issues with the investigation.

In a separate action, a former aide to Stone who was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury asked a federal appeals court to determine whether he still needs to testify now that the Russia probe has concluded.

In court documents, the lawyers argue they are entitled to a private disclosure of the nearly 400-page report that Mueller submitted to Attorney General William Barr late last month and said they "must be allowed to review the Report in its entirety because it contains the government's evidence and conclusions on matters essential to Stone's defense."

"To be clear, Stone is not requesting the Report be disclosed to the world - only to his counsel so that it may aid in preparing his defense," the lawyers wrote.

Stone, who is set to go on trial in November, has maintained his innocence and blasted the special counsel's investigation as politically motivated. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from conversations he had during the campaign about WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released material stolen from Democratic groups, including Hillary Clinton's campaign.

In a four-page letter to Congress that detailed Mueller's "principal conclusions," Barr said the special counsel did not find a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Trump associates during the campaign, but did not reach a definitive conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice. Instead, Mueller presented evidence on both sides of the obstruction question, but Barr said he did not believe the evidence was sufficient to prove that Trump had obstructed justice.

Barr has said he expects to release a redacted version of Mueller's report next week that will be sent to Congress and made public.

In the separate case, Andrew Miller, a former Stone aide, filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia over the subpoena he was issued in Mueller's investigation.

Last year, Mueller's team sought Miller's testimony regarding Stone, WikiLeaks and the Russian government-controlled online persona Guccifer 2.0, which was used to release hacked material during the 2016 election. But Miller challenged his grand jury subpoena, arguing that Mueller's appointment was unconstitutional.

Earlier this year a three-judge panel of the court upheld the special counsel's appointment and a contempt order intended to force Miller to testify.

In the new petition, Miller's attorney, Paul Kamenar, argued that the matter now appears to be moot because Stone has been indicted and like "Cinderella's carriage that turned into a pumpkin at midnight, special counsel Mueller's authority expired."

Kamenar is now asking the court to have the government formally say whether it will still pursue Miller's testimony. If that's the case, Kamenar is asking for a rehearing of the case. He said in a statement that he will take the fight to the Supreme Court if necessary.

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article229214134.html

Notable: >>6163725 MSM identity politics maximum hypocrisy re 5 y/o thrown off balcony

MSM is getting ahead of this story as we speak.

FUCK THEM FUCK THEM FUCK THEM!!!!

Notable: >>6163646 Sudan: New military council leader promises civilian government (Reuters)

News

New military council leader promises civilian government for Sudan

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The new head of Sudan’s military council said on Saturday a civilian government would be formed after consultations with the opposition and the transition period would last for a maximum of two years, as protesters kept up pressure for rapid change.

Notable: >>6163564, >>6163959 Police in London open fire as vehicle rams Ukraine embassy car, no injuries

=NEWS=

Man arrested in London after 'deliberately' ramming into Ukrainian ambassador's car, forcing police to open fire

https://www.foxnews.com/world/man-arrested-london-ukraine-ambassador-car-police-fire

Notable: First Chinese deepwater rig in South China Sea aims to supply LNG to Greater Bay Area

First Chinese deepwater rig in South China Sea aims to supply LNG to Greater Bay Area

A controversial offshore drilling platform has started deepwater operations in the South China Sea, which officials said would supply liquefied natural gas to the “Greater Bay Area”

in the future.

It is the first Chinese-built deepwater rig, and its first deep-sea well was completed in eastern waters of the South China Sea in recent days, according to a statement by its operator, state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).

The well is 4,660 metres deep, with a true vertical depth – or the distance in a straight line from the surface to the bottom of the borehole – of 2,529 metres.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3006044/first-chinese-deepwater-rig-south-china-sea-aims-supply-lng

Notable: Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President Same Day as Assange’s Arrest?

Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President Rafael Correa on Same Day as Assange’s Arrest

Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, the social media giant confirmed on Thursday, claiming that the popular leftist leader violated the company’s security policies.

In a statement republished by Ecuadorean newspaper El Comercio, a company spokesperson said:

Protecting the privacy and security of people is central to Facebook [and] we have clear policies that do not allow the disclosure of personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, bank account data, cards, or any record or data that could compromise the integrity physical or financial of the people in our community.

The move comes on the same day that Ecuador’s government allowed British security personnel to enter their embassy in London to arrest journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been sought by U.S. officials for years due to his role in releasing scandalous information implicating Washington in a range of crimes, including war crimes.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/04/facebook-removes-page-of-ecuadors-former-president-rafael-correa-on-same-day-as-assanges-arrest.html

Notable: Clintons viciously heckled at speech in NYC - The walk down the street Edition

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walk down the street edition.

Notable: New York Times: Trump’s Immigration Policy Wins Black Votes

New York Times: Trump’s Immigration Policy Wins Black Votes

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/04/12/new-york-times-trumps-immigration-policy-wins-black-votes/

Democrats must block President Donald Trump from using his pro-American immigration policy to win more African-American voters, says New York Times columnist Charles Blow.

“I believe that Trump’s team, if not him, understands the fissures in this immigration debate and is using them,” Blow wrote April 10. He continued:

As Trump said in January in an Oval Office address after shutting the government down because Congress wouldn’t fund the construction of his wall: “All Americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages. Among those hardest hit are African-Americans and Hispanic Americans.”

That is a pitch to both blacks and Hispanics already in this country. There is a real cleavage between second-, third- and fourth-generation Hispanics and new arrivals.

…

A Quinnipiac University poll last year found that 54 percent of blacks and 55 percent of Hispanics thought immigrants’ illegal crossing of the border with Mexico was an important problem. Additionally, 31 percent of blacks and 40 percent of Hispanics believed in using the National Guard to patrol the border with Mexico, and 13 percent of blacks and 25 percent of Hispanics supported the building of Trump’s wall.

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Trump Threatens To Send 'Illegals' To Sanctuary Cities

In 2016, Trump won the votes of roughly one-in-eight black men and one-in-three Hispanic men, while getting lower support from black and Hispanic women. Some of this sexual disparity exists because of Trump’s “Hire American” economic and immigration policy, which appeals mostly to male voters because it pressures companies to hire Americans at decent wages.

That small level of black electoral support allowed Trump to win the 2016 election — but it may rise before the 2020 election despite Democrats’ loud charges of racism.

In 2018, wages for blue-collar Americans jumped by 4 percent partly because of Trump’s “Hire American” policy.

Studies show that Trump’s green-colored pocketbook politics can be more important for blue-collar blacks than the Democrats’ race and resentment policies, which appeal more to white-collar blacks, such as Blow. In 2006, author Tatishe Nteta wrote in American Political Research journal:

Measures of economic self-interest more strongly account [than estimated collective-interest] for the opinion of African American members of the working class when compared to their middle-class brethren … [and] it appears that class membership is a more powerful force in shaping the attitudes of Blacks in comparison to Whites …

For African Americans who lost a job to an immigrant, working-class membership resulted in a 13 percentage point increase in the probability of support for an increased federal role in workplace oversight [againt employment of illegal immigrants] when compared to middle-class African Americans who experienced a similar loss.

The political result is that:

Working-class African Americans are significantly more supportive of policies that seek to: decrease the number of immigrants coming to the United States, increase the federal role in verifying the employment status of immigrants, and attempts to amend the Constitution’s citizenship provisions.

The enforcement of immigration law is also helping blacks — and Hispanics — get better-paid jobs.

Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university.

But the federal government then imports roughly 1.1 million legal immigrants, refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar guest workers plus roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers, and also tolerates about eight million illegal workers.

This federal policy of flooding the market with cheap white-collar graduates and blue-collar foreign labor is intended to boost economic growth for investors.

This policy works by shifting enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts children’s schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.

Notable: Pelosi is in Germany during congressional recess

Pelosi is in Germany during congressional recess. Might be useful to track where these people go.

Notable: Yellow Vest Act 22 update

Yellow Vest Act 22: Clashes in Toulouse, Vikings in Paris

Sporadic clashes with police marred Yellow Vests protests in Toulouse, the city chosen as the ‘capital’ of this week’s anti-government marches in France. Act 22 is the first since a controversial anti-rioting law took effect.

Several thousand protesters took part in the demonstration in Toulouse on Saturday, marking the 22nd consecutive week of the “gilets jaunes” movement. Smaller rallies involving hundreds of people happened in capital Paris, and other French cities.

Unlike some earlier protest gatherings, no major rioting has occurred so far this weekend. The police in Toulouse was filmed deploying tear gas and some clashes were reported.

🇫🇷💥❗ Absolutely impressive manifestation in #Toulouse, today's capital of the #Resistance by the #GiletsJaunes movement

Thousands over thousands of #YellowVests in the streets

First clashes between cops and GJ were reported during #ActeXXIIpic.twitter.com/K9iORxZ3jX

— Compact News 🌐 (@NewsCompact) April 13, 2019

https://www.rt.com/news/456422-yellow-vests-act-22/

Notable: >>6162981 VP Pence rt Bolton - Cuba exports tyranny and tactics to Maduro's game

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TY Baker!!!

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1117072242180001793

Vice President Mike Pence

‏Verified account @VP

18s19 seconds ago

Vice President Mike Pence Retweeted John Bolton

Cuba exports tyranny & strong-arm tactics to prop up Maduro’s brutal regime. The U.S. took action to sanction ships transporting Venezuelan oil to Cuba, and as I previewed at the @UN earlier this week: our Administration just announced additional action to hold Cuba accountable!

Notable: Saudi Arabia Bankrolling Haftar's Bid To Seize All Of Libya

Saudi Arabia Bankrolling Haftar's Bid To Seize All Of Libya

“Haftar would not be a player today without the foreign support he has received,” a Libyan affairs expert told The Wall Street Journal in a new lengthy profile of the Benghazi-based General Khalifa Haftar, whose Libyan National Army (LNA) is advancing this week on Tripoli. As Haftar consolidated power over much of the country's war ravaged east, also making huge gains in the past year over the south, he's all along enjoyed the political backing of an unlikely assortment of powerful countries that include the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, France, and Russia. But the new WSJ report reveals his latest major external backer with endlessly deep pockets: Days before Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive to seize the capital and attempt to unite the divided country under his rule, Saudi Arabia promised tens of millions of dollars to help pay for the operation, according to senior advisers to the Saudi government.

Citing senior Saudi officials, the report reveals further the offer came during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia, as part of a broader trip which took Haftar to European capitals where the perception was that the renegade general now militarily challenging the UN-backed Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) was crucial to negotiating a lasting power sharing settlement between the eastern and western halves of the country. The diplomatic meetings bolstered his status and resolve to take the whole country, even as lately the US and EU have vehemently called on him to halt the LNA's military advance, which lately included airstrikes on suburbs of Tripoli. But apparently, the Saudis and possibly other backers are actually funding the assault on Tripoli, and further securing weaponry. The WSJ continues: Mr. Haftar accepted the recent Saudi offer of funds, according to the senior Saudi advisers, who said the money was intended for buying the loyalty of tribal leaders, recruiting and paying fighters, and other military purposes. “We were quite generous,” one of the advisers said. The report also notes that with his so far rapid advance west, more previously reluctant European officials are jumping on the Haftar train. As we noted previously, "Libya's incoming strongman will send the oil out to Europe, and keep its migrants in." But the Saudis only very recently emerged as apparently Haftar's prime backer, putting into motion the bloody battle for Tripoli that has now been on for a week. The WSJ reports that Haftar's March trip to Riyadh included a key meeting with crown prince MbS: ''The following day, on March 27, he was welcomed in Riyadh by Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Undisclosed by the Saudi government at the time, he also met Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, along with Saudi Arabia’s interior minister and intelligence chief, according to two Saudi officials.''

And now the question remains, if the Saudis are now so aggressively backing him, will Washington be next to officially jump on the bandwagon? It should be noted that the likelihood is that he's already long been the CIA's man in Libya. What's not often stated outright is that Haftar is an American citizen, as recounted in a CNN profile this week: "Haftar is, to be polite, the ultimate pragmatist. He supported Moammar Gadhafi in his 1969 coup, then found himself in Langley, Virginia in the 90s where he gained US citizenship, before returning to overthrow Gadhafi in the 2011 conflict." While in exile in the US he lived a mere minutes from CIA headquarters: "As a military commander, Mr. Haftar broke with Ghaddafi in the 1980s and became part of a C.I.A.-backed effort to destabilize the Libyan regime. He then spent two decades in exile in the U.S., before returning to join the rebellion in 2011," according to the WSJ report.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/saudi-arabia-bankrolling-haftars-bid-seize-all-libya

Notable: Tucker: Assange's True Crime Was 'Embarrassing Virtually Everyone In Power in Washington'

Tucker: Assange's True Crime Was 'Embarrassing Virtually Everyone In Power in Washington'

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Thursday night that Julian Assange's real crime was embarrassing the powerful in Washington, DC.

"Julian Assange embarrassed virtually everyone in power in Washington," Tucker Carlson said. "He published documents that undermined the official story on the Iraq war and Afghanistan. He got Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired from the DNC. He humiliated Hillary Clinton by showing that the Democratic primaries were in fact rigged."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60055

Notable: Sudan's intelligence chief quits, protesters keep up pressure

Sudan's intelligence chief quits, protesters keep up pressure

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan’s security and intelligence chief quit on Saturday, state media reported, a day after the defense minister stepped down abruptly as interim leader following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir and protesters kept up demands for change.

Salah Abdallah Mohamed Saleh, known as Salah Gosh, who headed the National Intelligence and Security Service and was once the most influential person in the country after Bashir, was held responsible by protesters for the killing of demonstrators demanding an end to military rule.

Defense Minister Awad Ibn Auf stepped down as head of the transitional military council late on Friday after only a day in the post, as protesters demanded faster political change.

The new head of the military council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman, accepted Gosh’s resignation, state news agency SUNA said on Saturday.

Burhan is a military commander believed to be more ready to talk to the protesters.

He was the third most senior general in the Sudanese armed forces and is little known in public life. As head of Sudan’s ground forces he oversaw Sudanese troops fighting in the Saudi-led Yemen war and has close ties to senior Gulf military officials.

Celebrations erupted on the streets of Khartoum overnight following Ibn Auf’s resignation. Thousands of protesters waved flags and illuminated mobile phones in the darkness and drivers hooted car horns. People chanted: “The second has fallen!” a reference to Ibn Auf and Bashir, witnesses said.

The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which has been leading protests to demand a civilian government, called for more demonstrations on Saturday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-politics/sudans-intelligence-chief-quits-protesters-keep-up-pressure-idUSKCN1RP06S?il=0

Notable: Migrants break Guatemalan border gate, force their way into Mexico

Migrants break Guatemalan border gate, force their way into Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States. The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the migrants, but they are usually from Central America. A similar confrontation occurred on the same border bridge between Mexico and Guatemala last year.

The institute said the migrants were acting in a "hostile" and "aggressive" way, and accused them of also attacking local police in Metapa, a Mexican village that lies between the border and the nearby city of Tapachula. The group of 350 pushed past police guarding the bridge and joined a larger group of about 2,000 migrants who are walking toward Tapachula in the latest caravan to enter Mexico.

Claudia Jaqueline Sandoval, 43, from El Progreso, Honduras, was walking toward Tapachula with her 6-year-old daughter. Another son and a daughter are already in the United States. "I have been HIV positive for 16 years," said Sandoval, but her reason for going north was not just medical treatment. "It has been two years since I heard from my son" in the United States, and money is scarce, she said.

There are already several groups of migrants in the southern border state of Chiapas who have expressed frustration at Mexico's policy of slowing or stopping the process of handing out humanitarian and exit visas at the border. A group of several hundred Cuban, African and Central American migrants have been waiting at the immigration offices in Tapachula for documents that would allow them to travel to the U.S. border, where most plan to request asylum.

Some members of that group have scuffled with immigration authorities and broken windows at the offices in recent days, accusing officials of making them wait too long for papers. And another group of an estimated 2,500 Central American and Cuban migrants have been stuck for at least a week further west in the Chiapas town of Mapastepec, also waiting for papers.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/migrants-break-guatemalan-border-gate-force-their-way-into-mexico

Notable: Investigation launched into handling of Jussie Smollett case

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/investigation-launched-handling-jussie-smollett-case/story?id=62361868

Investigation launched into handling of Jussie Smollett case

Kim Foxx, the embattled Chicago state's attorney whose office has come under fire for its handling of the Jussie Smollett case, has asked the local inspector general to conduct an "independent review" of their investigation, she confirmed in a statement.

The news comes the day after the city's law department announced that they are suing Smollett to recoup the amount that they had to spend in order to cover the overtime of police officers during the investigation.

Smollet's case has sparked a firestorm ever since news broke of the Jan. 29 alleged attack. Controversy was further stoked when police alleged the incident was a hoax and ultimately when prosecutors dropped the charges against the actor.

Foxx said that she "invited" the inspector general, Patrick Blanchard, to look into her office's handling of the case, which involved the "Empire" actor's claims of being a victim of a hate crime that police alleged was a hoax.

"A former prosecutor, Inspector General Blanchard has been conducting independent inquiries for Cook County for over a decade," Foxx wrote in her statement.

"Ensuring that I and my office have the community’s trust and confidence is paramount to me, which is why I invited an independent review of this matter. I welcome this investigation and pledge my full cooperation and the cooperation of my office as IG Blanchard conducts his review."

Notable: Kim open to another summit with Trump, with conditions

Kim open to another summit with Trump, with conditions

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he is open to a third summit with President Donald Trump, but set the year's end as a deadline for Washington to offer mutually acceptable terms for an agreement to salvage the high-stakes nuclear diplomacy, the North's state-run media said Saturday.

Kim made the comments during a speech Friday at a session of North Korea's rubber stamp parliament, which made a slew of personnel changes that bolstered his diplomatic lineup amid stalemated negotiations with the United States. His speech came hours after Trump and visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in met in Washington and agreed on the importance of nuclear talks with North Korea.

"We of course place importance on resolving problems through dialogue and negotiations. But U.S.-style dialogue of unilaterally pushing its demands doesn't fit us, and we have no interest in it," Kim said during the speech.

According to the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, Kim blamed the collapse of his summit with Trump in February on what he described as unilateral demands by the United States, which he said raised questions over whether Washington has genuine willingness to improve relations. But Kim said his personal relationship with Trump remains good and that they could exchange letters at "any time."

Trump responded to the remarks by saying he agreed with Kim about their relationship, and also expressed a desire for another summit.

"I agree with Kim Jong Un of North Korea that our personal relationship remains very good, perhaps the term excellent would be even more accurate, and that a third Summit would be good in that we fully understand where we each stand," Trump wrote on Twitter.

"North Korea has tremendous potential for … extraordinary growth, economic success and riches under the leadership of Chairman Kim. I look forward to the day, which could be soon, when Nuclear Weapons and Sanctions can be removed, and then watching North Korea become one of the most successful nations of the World!" he tweeted.

In his speech, Kim repeated earlier claims that North Korea's crippled economy would persevere through heavy international sanctions imposed over its nuclear weapons program and that he wouldn't "obsess over summitry with the United States out of thirst for sanctions relief."

The United States has said the summit in Vietnam broke down because of the North's excessive demands for sanctions relief in return for limited disarmament measures. In their first summit last June in Singapore, Trump and Kim issued a vague statement calling for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula without describing when or how it would occur.

Kim said the United States has been refusing to withdraw what the North perceives as "hostile policies" while sticking to "mistaken judgment that we would succumb to maximum pressure." He said the North would not compromise on the "fundamental interests of our country and people, even by a speck," and blamed the United States for arriving in Hanoi with "completely unrealizable plans."

"If the United States approaches us with the right manner and offers to hold a third North Korea-U.S. leaders' summit on the condition of finding solutions we could mutually accept, then we do have a willingness to give it one more try," Kim added. "We will wait with patience until the end of the year for the United States to come up with a courageous decision. But it will clearly be difficult for a good opportunity like last time to come up."

Kim also during the speech made a nationalistic call for South Korea to support the North's positions more strongly and criticized Seoul for acting like an "overstepping mediator" between Washington and Pyongyang. Kim held three summits last year with Moon, who lobbied hard to revive the nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea. Following the collapse of the Trump-Kim summit, the North had been urging the South to break away from Washington and proceed with inter-Korean economic projects that are currently held back by U.S.-led sanctions against the North.

"The South should not act as an 'overstepping mediator' or a 'facilitator' and should rather get its mind straight as a member of the (Korean) nation and boldly speak up for the interest of the nation," Kim said.

When asked about Kim's comments, South Korea's presidential office said Seoul is committed toward keeping the atmosphere of dialogue alive and helping negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang resume at an early date.

https://www.newser.com/article/732c44609d844ba7a5288ade43bf90bd/kim-open-to-another-summit-with-trump-with-conditions.html

Notable: >>6162066 Ex-CBS Chairman gave up millions in stock following scandal

Ex-CBS Chairman gave up millions in stock following scandal

Former CBS chairman Leslie Moonves gave up his rights to $34.5 million in stock after he resigned last year following a sexual misconduct scandal, reports Variety.

Details: Moonves had $47 million in CBS stock before the allegations of misconduct hit, according to Variety. He was paid $4.6 million in 2018, which includes his salary, a retirement pension and part of his 2017 bonus.

Notable: New Trump twat radical Left in Congress, Mueller, Hillary, and crime committed by DNC

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117040007016009728

Notable: New Trump twats regarding 3rd summit with NK

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117035779589648386

Notable: Ex-Clinton aide leading ‘dark money’ effort to oust justice Kav from teaching gig

=NEWS=

Ex-Clinton aide leading ‘dark money’ effort to oust justice from teaching gig

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-official-george-mason-kavanaugh-allegations

Notable: UMKC Chancellor Responds to Attack on Conservative Speaker

UMKC Chancellor Responds to Attack on Conservative Speaker

UMKC Chancellor Responds To Assault On Daily Wire's Knowles By Condemning Knowles, Praising Peaceful Protesters

At a Young America's Foundation-sponsored event on the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Thursday night, Michael Knowles, host of The Daily Wire's "Michael Knowles Show" podcast, was sprayed by a protester with an unknown chemical substance as Knowles attempted to give a speech titled "Men Are Not Women." The protester's actions prompted police to subdue the assailant as the room erupted in chaos.

On Friday, the chancellor of the university issued a statement to the UMKC campus community in which he praised students who organized to protest the conservative speaker peacefully and condemned Knowles as allegedly holding opinions that "do not align with our commitment to diversity and inclusion and our goal of providing a welcoming environment to all people, particularly to our LGBT community."

(pic related)

https://www.dailywire.com/news/45924/umkc-chancellor-responds-assault-daily-wires-james-barrett

Notable: Inside Assange's fetid Lair

Assange inside his fetid lair: Revealed, the full squalid horror that drove embassy staff to finally kick him out

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6917341/Assange-inside-fetid-lair-squalid-horror-drove-embassy-staff-finally-kick-out.html

Notable: >>6161744 Assange being held at UK equivalent of Gitmo

Julian Assange is being held at ‘Britain’s Guantanamo Bay’

https://twitter.com/rt_com/status/1116811095208005634?s=21

Notable: >>6161700 FB 'accidentally' puts hidden messages in 10s of thousands of VR controllers

Facebook accidentally put hidden messages like 'Big Brother is Watching' and 'The Masons Were Here' in 'tens of thousands' of VR controllers

kek

https://www.businessinsider.de/facebook-weird-messages-oculus-touch-controllers-2019-4

Facebook said it accidentally included cryptic hidden messages in "tens of thousands" of its Oculus Touch virtual-reality controllers.

Printed inside its Touch controllers were phrases like "Big Brother is Watching" and "The Masons Were Here."

Big Brother is Watching

The Masons Were Here

Nate Mitchell, the cofounder of Facebook's Oculus unit, said the messages were intended for prototypes but included in production units by accident.

Facebook said it wouldn't recall the controllers.

How to red-pill the masses.

Notable: >>6161672 ODNI launches Argentina declas project

@intelgov dni.gov/index.php/news…

Notable: Assange's attorney has interviewed NSA Bill Binney

same girl?

https://youtu.be/r9-3K3rkPRE

https://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/assange-lawyer-we-ll-be-fighting-extradition-to-u-s-1488343107947

Notable: Wikileaks' Tor network discussion btwn Assange and Eric Schmidt (2014 Time Article)

Google is not what it seems, says Assange

https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447

n June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.

For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famous insurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of the world’s largest information empire locked horns. The two men debated the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network—from the Arab Spring to Bitcoin.

They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with U.S. foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to Western companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internet’s future that has only gathered force subsequently.

In this extract from When Google Met WikiLeaks Assange describes his encounter with Schmidt and how he came to conclude that it was far from an innocent exchange of views.

Eric Schmidt is an influential figure, even among the parade of powerful characters with whom I have had to cross paths since I founded WikiLeaks. In mid-May 2011 I was under house arrest in rural Norfolk, England, about three hours’ drive northeast of London. The crackdown against our work was in full swing and every wasted moment seemed like an eternity. It was hard to get my attention.

But when my colleague Joseph Farrell told me the executive chairman of Google wanted to make an appointment with me, I was listening.

In some ways the higher echelons of Google seemed more distant and obscure to me than the halls of Washington. We had been locking horns with senior U.S. officials for years by that point. The mystique had worn off. But the power centers growing up in Silicon Valley were still opaque and I was suddenly conscious of an opportunity to understand and influence what was becoming the most influential company on earth. Schmidt had taken over as CEO of Google in 2001 and built it into an empire.

I was intrigued that the mountain would come to Muhammad. But it was not until well after Schmidt and his companions had been and gone that I came to understand who had really visited me.

The stated reason for the visit was a book. Schmidt was penning a treatise with Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, an outfit that describes itself as Google’s in-house “think/do tank.”

I knew little else about Cohen at the time. In fact, Cohen had moved to Google from the U.S. State Department in 2010. He had been a fast-talking “Generation Y” ideas man at State under two U.S. administrations, a courtier from the world of policy think tanks and institutes, poached in his early twenties.

He became a senior advisor for Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton. At State, on the Policy Planning Staff, Cohen was soon christened “Condi’s party-starter,” channeling buzzwords from Silicon Valley into U.S. policy circles and producing delightful rhetorical concoctions such as “Public Diplomacy 2.0.” On his Council on Foreign Relations adjunct staff page he listed his expertise as “terrorism; radicalization; impact of connection technologies on 21st century statecraft; Iran.”

It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran. His documented love affair with Google began the same year when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “think/do tank” based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head. Google Ideas was born.

Later that year two co-wrote a policy piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the reformative potential of Silicon Valley technologies as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Describing what they called “coalitions of the connected,” Schmidt and Cohen claimed that:

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/cms/assange-schmidt.mp3

12:49

Self censorship discussed by Assange when meeting with Eric Schmidt

Notable: Google sued over Search power abuse (Berlin)

Bring on the lawyers.

EUrewhere.

Class Action coming?

In the suit filed in a Berlin court Friday, Idealo internet GmbH, a leading price-comparison service that is majority-owned by publisher Axel Springer SPR 2.20% SE, alleged that Google made it harder for users of its search engine to find links to Idealo after the U.S. company started promoting its own price-comparison offering, now called Google Shopping. Alphabet’s European entity, Google Ireland Ltd., is also targeted by the suit.

Thomas Höppner, a lawyer representing Idealo, said the potential damages could increase substantially should the judge accept his demand to subpoena data from Google to determine the exact scale and period of the alleged antitrust violation.

“I’m absolutely convinced that our case will send an important signal to the very many companies that have suffered similar damages. We are talking about a lot of money,” Mr. Höppner said. “Many companies are not clearly aware of the potential for claiming back damages they suffered from Google.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/suit-could-raise-googles-liabilities-in-price-comparison-case-11555056397

Notable: >>6161478 5 yo attacked - suspect had previous MoA arrests/chgd with murder

Black Savage Arrested for Throwing Five Year Old White Child from the Third Floor of the Mall of America in Minnesota

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-arrested-after-5-year-old-boy-thrown-from-third-floor-at-mall-of-america

One man told the New York Daily News he saw the immediate aftermath of the incident and that the child was lying “motionless…in a pool of blood.”

Goddamn animal 

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-child-thrown-from-third-floor-mall-of-america-20190412-utlxcv655vdy3i4oibcpon4mhe-story.html

The Jewish Media refuses to put the race in the headline when it's a nigger too and that pisses me the fuck off

Notable: Iranian forces said killed in reported Israeli airstrikes on Syria military site

Iranian forces said killed in reported Israeli airstrikes on Syria military site

A number of Iranian forces were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Syrian military position near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday-Saturday. Syrian state media said Israeli jets carried out the raid in the middle of the night, firing missiles while flying in Lebanese airspace.

Syria’s official state news agency SANA said Israel targeted a military site in the area, but that Syrian air defenses intercepted the attack, downing some of the missile fired. The regime mouthpiece said the interception resulted in the destruction of several buildings and the wounding of three “fighters.” The area is known to house Iranian forces and their Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

in the Syrian city of Masyaf on April 13, 2019. (Screengrab/Twitter)

A number of Iranian forces were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Syrian military position near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday-Saturday. Syrian state media said Israeli jets carried out the raid in the middle of the night, firing missiles while flying in Lebanese airspace.

Syria’s official state news agency SANA said Israel targeted a military site in the area, but that Syrian air defenses intercepted the attack, downing some of the missile fired. The regime mouthpiece said the interception resulted in the destruction of several buildings and the wounding of three “fighters.” The area is known to house Iranian forces and their Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

According to a report by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Arabic, Iranian “elements” and pro-Iranian militants were killed in the alleged attack, and 17 people were injured.

in the Syrian city of Masyaf on April 13, 2019. (Screengrab/Twitter)

A number of Iranian forces were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Syrian military position near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday-Saturday. Syrian state media said Israeli jets carried out the raid in the middle of the night, firing missiles while flying in Lebanese airspace.

Syria’s official state news agency SANA said Israel targeted a military site in the area, but that Syrian air defenses intercepted the attack, downing some of the missile fired. The regime mouthpiece said the interception resulted in the destruction of several buildings and the wounding of three “fighters.” The area is known to house Iranian forces and their Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

According to a report by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Arabic, Iranian “elements” and pro-Iranian militants were killed in the alleged attack, and 17 people were injured.

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Israel does not regularly comment on alleged strikes in Syria, though it has acknowledged some operations.

in the Syrian city of Masyaf on April 13, 2019. (Screengrab/Twitter)

A number of Iranian forces were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Syrian military position near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday-Saturday. Syrian state media said Israeli jets carried out the raid in the middle of the night, firing missiles while flying in Lebanese airspace.

Syria’s official state news agency SANA said Israel targeted a military site in the area, but that Syrian air defenses intercepted the attack, downing some of the missile fired. The regime mouthpiece said the interception resulted in the destruction of several buildings and the wounding of three “fighters.” The area is known to house Iranian forces and their Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

According to a report by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Arabic, Iranian “elements” and pro-Iranian militants were killed in the alleged attack, and 17 people were injured.

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Israel does not regularly comment on alleged strikes in Syria, though it has acknowledged some operations.

The Observatory said Saturday that the strike targeted a Syrian military college in the town and two buildings used by Iranian forces in nearby villages — a development center for medium-range missiles in Zawi and a training camp in Sheikh Ghadban.

Iran has been one of the top military backers of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime in the over nine-year-long civil war in the country, as has been its Lebanese proxy, the Hezbollah terror group.

SANA quoted a military source as saying on Saturday, “Around 2:30 am (2330 GMT Friday)… the Israeli air force carried out a strike targeting one of our military positions in the town of Masyaf,” adding that Syrian air defenses intercepted some of the missiles.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-forces-said-killed-in-reported-israeli-airstrikes-on-syria-military-site/

Notable: >>6161044 Left eye [marker] in Q438

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Notable: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs 'Heartbeat Bill'

BAKER NOTABLE

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs 'Heartbeat Bill'

COLUMBUS — Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday wasted little time signing what would be one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the nation.

“The signing of this bill today is consistent with that respect for life and the imperative to protect those who cannot protect themselves,” said Mr. DeWine as he signed the bill in the presence of Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion advocates in his ceremonial Statehouse office.

Even before the Republican governor put ink to paper, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio announced it will file the inevitable court challenge to prevent it from going into effect as scheduled in 90 days.

On Wednesday, the House and Senate, solely with Republican votes, passed the latest version of the so-called “Heartbeat Bill,” which would all but ban an abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. That could occur less than six weeks into pregnancy, a point at which, critics argue, a woman may be unaware she’s pregnant.

The bill would make it a fifth-degree felony, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine, for a doctor who fails to test for a fetal heartbeat or proceeds with an abortion after detecting one. In addition to the State Medical Board potentially taking action against the doctor’s license, the board could levy an additional fine of $20,000 to fuel a fund supporting foster-care and adoption services.

“This legislation is blatantly unconstitutional, and we will fight to the bitter end to ensure that this bill is permanently blocked,” Freda Levenson, ACLU legal director, said. “S.B. 23 is one of the most aggressive, oppressive, and radical attacks against women ever seen in this state and this country.

“A nearly identical bill in Kentucky was just struck down by a federal judge,” she said. “We feel confident our impending litigation will ultimately prevail.”

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit would be Pre-term Cleveland, two Planned Parenthood organizations, and the Women’s Med Center of Dayton, all groups previously involved in challenging other anti-abortion laws enacted in recent years by Ohio.

Lawsuits have been filed against similar laws passed in Iowa, Kentucky, Arkansas, and North Dakota. To date, none of those laws has been allowed to take effect, and the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to agree to hear a state’s appeal of those decisions.

Mississippi was the most recent state to pass such a law.

Mr. DeWine noted that Ohio is not the first to take this step.

When asked why Ohio should not let one of those states take the lead rather than have Ohio spend potentially millions to defend its law in court, the governor said simply, “Well, I think it’s the right thing to do.”

Supporters of the bill fully anticipated legal action, and Mr. DeWine called it a “time-honored, constitutional tradition” to pass laws to challenge U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

The bill’s supporters are banking that the U.S. Supreme Court’s more conservative bench, aided by President Trump’s appointment of Brett Kavanaugh, will use it as a vehicle to undermine the landmark 1973 decision that recognized abortion as an extension of a woman’s constitutional right to privacy.

“We live in a country with great respect for the law,” Mr. DeWine said. “We will respect the law, and we will respect what the courts decide… It is in that spirit that I signed this today.”

In fact, lawmakers who voted for the bill pointed to last month’s decision by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold Ohio’s law that diverted federal health-care dollars, awarded through the state, away from Planned Parenthood clinics that either perform abortions or make referrals for the procedure.

Mr. Trump has also had an impact on the more recent makeup of that Cincinnati-based bench.

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/politics/2019/04/11/gov-mike-dewine-signs-ohio-heartbeat-bill-anti-abortion-law/stories/20190411136

Notable: Moar on missing T in SRIKE, twitter and @jack

>>6160764

more on missing T ,twitter and @jack.

Notable: >>6161053 Transgender military ban goes into effect

I identify as a Q Drop.

Bye bye FAGGOTS!!!………

Transgender military ban goes into effect

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s controversial policy banning transgender recruits from joining the military went into effect on Friday.

The Pentagon says the new policy does not affect transgender troops currently serving in the armed forces, a contention that’s strongly denied by advocates, who point to the potential for discrimination and harassment.

The ban blocks individuals who have been diagnosed with a condition known as gender dysphoria from joining. Transgender individuals can serve, but only if they meet the standards of the sex they were assigned at birth.

The Pentagon says the policy doesn’t block transgender individuals from service, but advocates say it is designed to operate as a comprehensive ban on their presence. Current military leaders have testified to Congress that transgender troops have not affected cohesion, while retired military leaders have decried the policy as misguided and damaging.

‘Bigoted’

“It’s a bigoted policy. It has not one shred of evidence behind it,” Ray Mabus, a former secretary of the Navy, told CNN. “In fact, all the evidence goes the other way. It goes against the basic American notion that it should be about what you can do and not who you are. … To do this to patriots who are willing to serve — not only willing, but eager to serve, who have raised their hands and said send me — weakens our democracy and seriously weakens our military.”

Anthony Kurta, a Pentagon official acting for the deputy under secretary of personnel and readiness, told reporters Friday that “the department will continue to treat all individuals with dignity and respect, and every service member is able to express their gender identity. DOD will take no action solely based on gender identity.”

The policy, signaled when President Donald Trump tweeted a call for a blanket ban in 2017, still faces lower court challenges, but the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 January order that it could go forward. The justices took no stand on the legality of the ban.

Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, a think thank that researches gender and the military, said that “the policy stigmatizes all trans people. … The way the policy will play out on the ground — this will be a green light to commanders who are transphobic,” putting the estimated 14,700 trans members of the military at a disadvantage and forcing many to stay in the closet.

Public opposes the policy

Most Americans oppose the policy, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

That poll found 70% believe transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military. The only listed group that disagreed were Republicans, with 50% saying they shouldn’t be allowed and 40% in favor.

Most transgender persons are now disqualified from military service, except:

• Service members who have been stable for three years in their biological sex prior to joining the military — meaning 36 months after surgery and after ending hormone treatments.

• Service members diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” after joining the military can stay in the military if they don’t require a change of gender and remain deployable. Gender dysphoria involves a conflict between a person’s physical or assigned gender and the gender with which the person identifies, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

• Service members who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the effective date of the policy can still serve and receive medical treatment.

• Transgender persons without a gender dysphoria diagnosis or history can serve in their birth sex.

Case by case

The Defense Department can issue waivers on a case-by-case basis.

Kurda said Friday that the policy originated in 2017 when “service leadership” approached then-Defense Secretary James Mattis and “expressed some readiness reservations.”

Over a series of hearings by the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2018, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, now a Democratic presidential candidate, asked the chiefs of staff of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force about the issue of transgender troops.

All four said they saw no negative effects from transgender personnel serving.

“I have received precisely zero reports of issues of cohesion, discipline, morale and all those sorts of things,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said at one of the hearings.

Mabus said the case being made against transgender troops has been recycled several times through history.

History repeats itself

https://wgntv.com/2019/04/12/pentagon-transgender-ban-goes-into-effect/

Notable: Chris Christie: Ilhan Omar is 'off her rocker', AOC is a 'joke', should apologize for 9/11 comments

Chris Christie: Ilhan Omar is 'off her rocker', AOC is a 'joke', should apologize for 9/11 comments -

https://destinywall.org/goaway?temp=1&/redirect?type=4&/chris-christie-ilhan-omar-is-off-her-rocker-aoc-is-a-joke-should-apologize-for-911-comments/ …

Notable: April 13, 1953: MKUltra launched by CIA Director Allen Dulles

Happy MKUltra Day!

66 years ago on (((April 13th, 1953))) this wicked ass bullshit was launched.

Notable: Cernovich tweet: Violent Antifa member at one of his talks arrested for sex solicitation w/newborn infant

Holy shit!!! Not a fan of Mike, but this is really something!!!

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1116754702601863170

Notable: JA associate cyber security expert Arjen Kamphuis mysteriously missing in Norway since 8-20-18

Just a reminder…

JA associate cyber security expert Arjen Kamphuis mysteriously missing in Norway since 20th August 2018

Police in Norway are looking into the disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, a Dutch citizen with links to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Versions on Twitter have ranged from a hiking incident, to a secret assignment, to a CIA hit.

Kamphuis, a cyber security expert and co-author of a handbook for investigative journalists on how to keep themselves and their work safe from government spying, has been missing since August 20th, when he checked out of a hotel in the town of Bodø in northern Norway.

https://www.rt.com/news/437460-assange-associate-missing-police-probe/

Notable: James Woods to HRC: "Do your molars crack when you have to call him the President?"; >>6160989 anon commentary

Do your molars crack when you have to call him the President?

twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1116954763776544768

twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1116829811463327745

Notable: Julian Assange 'must face Swedish justice' if country asks, say MPs

Julian Assange 'must face Swedish justice' if country asks, say MPs

More than 70 MPs have signed a letter urging the home secretary to ensure Julian Assange faces authorities in Sweden if they request his extradition.

Labour's Stella Creasy tweeted a copy of the note sent to Sajid Javid.

WikiLeaks co-founder Assange was arrested on Thursday in relation to an extradition request from the US, where he is facing computer hacking charges.

He had spent seven years in Ecuador's London embassy, evading trial in Sweden for sex assaults which he has denied.

At the time, Assange said he had had entirely consensual sex with two women while on a trip to Stockholm and that the Swedish claims against him were part of a smear campaign.

Swedish prosecutors dropped a rape investigation into Assange in 2017 because they were unable to formally notify him of the allegations while he stayed in the embassy.

Two other charges of molestation and unlawful coercion had to be dropped in 2015 because time had run out.

But Swedish prosecutors say they are now re-examining the 47-year-old's case at the request of the lawyer acting for the alleged rape victim.

The letter, signed by mostly Labour MPs, urges Mr Javid to "stand with the victims of sexual violence" and ensure the rape claim against the 47-year-old can be "properly investigated".

"We do not presume guilt, of course, but we believe due process should be followed and the complainant should see justice be done," it says.

The rape allegation has a limitation period which expires in August 2020, it adds.

Inquiries into claims of molestation and unlawful coercion have already been timed out.

On Friday evening, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Assange should be extradited to Sweden before any attempt to get him to the US.

She said she was "disgusted" the American allegation had been "allowed to eclipse" the sex offence case.

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Extradition proceedings are dealt with by the courts.

According to the Home Office, the home secretary can bring a limited number of factors into consideration when deciding whether to order a person's extradition.

These include whether the person might be at risk of the death penalty or whether the requesting state might try to add additional charges it has not specified.

However, lawyer Rebecca Niblock said that, if Sweden made an extradition request, it would be for the home secretary to decide which would take precedence, considering factors such as which was made first and the seriousness of the offence.

Australian-born Assange faces a charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in the US for his alleged role in one of the largest ever leaks of government secrets, in 2010, which could result in a prison term of up to five years.

The US Department of Justice has accused him of conspiring with former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to commit "one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States".

Advance notice?

Assange sought refuge in the Ecuador embassy, in Knightsbridge, west London, in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault. But after seven years, Ecuador abruptly withdrew its asylum and invited the police to arrest him on Thursday.

The MPs' letter says both UK and US authorities seem to have been aware in advance of Ecuador's decision to rescind Mr Assange's political asylum.

"It is therefore of grave concern to us that it appears that the Swedish authorities were not aware of the plans made to arrest Mr Assange yesterday in London, and we would welcome clarity as to what action the UK authorities took to ensure that the Swedish prosecutors were informed in advance of this decision," it adds.

After his dramatic arrest, Assange was taken to Westminster Magistrates' Court and found guilty of a British charge of breaching bail. He spent Thursday night in custody and is facing up to 12 months in prison for that conviction.

Assange is due to face a hearing over his possible extradition to the US on 2 May.

Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson said they would be fighting the extradition request. She said it set a "dangerous precedent" for journalists publishing information about the US.

The UN has called for his right to a fair trial to be respected during any extradition process.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47917325

Notable: “Obama Officials Spied on Trump Campaign Using at Least Five Methods”

This AGED well…

“Obama Officials Spied on Trump Campaign Using at Least Five Methods”

During the heat of the 2016 presidential elections, officials within the Obama administration, including cabinet-level officials who answered to Obama directly, extensively spied on the campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump.

Both the Department of Justice inspector general and the House intelligence committee are currently probing the actions of the Obama officials and their motivations.

So far, at least five different ways that the officials spied on the Trump campaign have been uncovered.

These include the use of national security letters, a FISA warrant, an undercover informant, the unmasking of identities in intelligence reports, and spying conducted by foreign intelligence agencies.

Each of these methods provided the officials with sensitive information on the Trump campaign that could have been used for political purposes.

Private communications between FBI officials involved in the agency’s investigation on the Trump campaign, reveal its links to the White House.

In one of the text messages obtained by the DOJ inspector general, and since released publicly, the lead FBI agent on the case, Peter Strzok, wrote in a Sept. 2, 2016, message to FBI lawyer Lisa Page that “potus [president of the United States] wants to know everything we’re doing.” Page was serving as counsel to then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

There have also been direct ties between the spying and the campaign of then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The FBI and DOJ relied heavily on unverified allegations contained in the so-called Trump dossier, paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-five-methods-obama-officials-used-to-spy-on-the-trump-campaign_2544292.html

Notable: Roger Stone wants Julian Assange to Testify at his Trial

Trump Card

Roger Stone wants Julian Assange to Testify at his Trial.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/roger-stone-julian-assange-trial/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

Notable: Vivian Krause: Rachel Notley, the Rockefellers and Alberta's landlocked oil

Vivian Krause: Rachel Notley, the Rockefellers and Alberta's landlocked oil

((([Rockefeller-supported groups]))) are helping defeat the UCP, the only party in the Alberta election committed to breaking the U.S. monopoly on Alberta’s overseas oil exports

Alberta is in the final days before an election and the backbone industry of its economy is practically broken because all pipeline projects out of the province have been stalled or ended. This didn’t happen for no reason. This was planned and is precisely what a Rockefeller Brothers Fund campaign was funded to bring about.

The Tar Sands Campaign has been running for more than a decade with financial help from the US$870-million Rockefeller family philanthropic foundation. The goal of the campaign, as CBC reported in January, is to sabotage all pipeline projects that would export crude oil from Western Canada to lucrative overseas markets.

Northern Gateway, Energy East, Keystone XL, Trans Mountain and Line 3 have all been targeted. Most of the talk about this campaign has focused on how this activism chokes the oil industry, but tax documents indicate it also takes aim at natural gas.

The reason Alberta needs pipelines is so that local producers aren’t forced to sell only into the U.S. market, often at a steep discount. As it is, Alberta forfeits billions of dollars in lost royalties and revenue because there’s no infrastructure for getting large volumes of oil to overseas markets where buyers pay more.

Canadian producers are stuck selling into the United States for whatever they get, but if Alberta is ever going to complete a new pipeline or extend an existing one, it needs a premier who has the courage and the ability to stand up to the Rockefellers and bring the Tar Sands Campaign to an end.

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Until very recently, I was convinced that Premier Rachel Notley was sincere and committed to leading Canada into the global oil market, a daunting challenge for any politician because it means breaking the U.S. monopoly that has kept Canada over a barrel while benefiting U.S. interests to the tune of billions.

But now, sad to say, it is clear to me that Notley will never do what is necessary for any Alberta pipeline project to go ahead. My opinion changed because of an email sent by Leadnow, an anti-pipeline activist, on April 1, and forwarded to me on April 3.

By way of background, it bears mention that I have been working since July 2018 with Notley’s government to provide information and assist her team in taking the necessary steps to break the pipeline gridlock.

On April 1, Leadnow forwarded an undated email sent out by Duncan Kinney, executive director of Progress Alberta, a non-profit advocacy group.

The email states: “We’re going into our fourth week of digital door knocking and text banking and it has been incredible. We can talk to a lot of voters in very little time and we’ve identified thousands of supporters that we will be getting out to the polls.”

Does this explain why Notley refuses to stand up to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund?

The email also explained what Progress Alberta is doing to defeat Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party: “We’re holding texting parties every week in the lead up to the election, where we text thousands of voters across the province to make sure they don’t vote for Kenney’s UCP.”

Contacted by phone and via Twitter on April 3, Kinney did not deny that the email forwarded by Leadnow was sent by him. Leadnow’s executive director did not reply to tweets about this matter.

Both Leadnow and Progress Alberta are partially funded — US$62,843 (2016-2017) and US$162,587 (2013-2016), respectively — by the Tar Sands Campaign, U.S. tax returns show.

At the same time that Leadnow forwarded Kinney’s email to Leadnow’s supporters, Logan McIntosh, an executive director noted that Leadnow would not be directly involved in the election, but suggested, “With the election just two weeks away, will you sign up to join Progress Alberta’s campaign to stop Kenney?”

By encouraging supporters to join Progress Alberta, Leadnow effectively joined the campaign against the UCP.

Leadnow was created as part of the Strategic Incubation program of a Rockefeller-funded U.S. organization called the Online Progressive Engagement Network.

Put another way, Rockefeller-supported organizations are helping to defeat the UCP, the only political party in the Alberta election that is committed to breaking the U.S. monopoly on Alberta’s overseas oil exports.

More at https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/vivian-krause-rachel-notley-the-rockefellers-and-albertas-landlocked-oil

Notable: Sundance co-founder faces child sex abuse charge

Sundance co-founder faces child sex abuse charge

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 News) – The co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival is accused of child sex abuse.

Sterling Gray Van Wagenen, 71, is charged with one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony.

According to a probable cause statement, Sandy police received a report that a young girl told her parents she was touched inappropriately by Van Wagenen on two occasions between 2013 and 2015 when she was between the ages 7 and 9.

Documents state, one of the occasions happened at the girl’s home. The girl said she was sitting on Van Wagenen’s lap when he allegedly put his hands under her underwear and molested her.

According to the website Truth for Transparency, Van Wagenen admitted to child molestation in an interview with another alleged victim.

That victim, who asked to be called “David,” reached out to Van Wagenen in September 2018 to get closure on the incident he claims happened in the early ‘90s. He recorded their conversation, in which Van Wagenen allegedly admits to molesting the then 13-year-old during a sleepover.

If convicted, Van Wagenen faces 15 years to life in prison.

Van Wagenen has directed and produced more than a dozen films, documentaries and TV series. He is also credited as founding executive director of the Sundance Institute.

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/sundance-co-founder-faces-child-sex-abuse-charge/1915500641

Notable: Mexican, U.S. business leaders cry salty tears over Trump border closure threats

Mexican, U.S. business leaders unite to rebuke 'disastrous' Trump border closure threats

MERIDA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican and U.S. business leaders on Friday pushed back against President Donald Trump’s threats to close the U.S.-Mexico border and urged him to drop steel tariffs that have hindered the ratification of a trade deal brokered last year.

At a meeting in the eastern Mexican city of Merida attended by government officials from both countries, business lobbies united to call on Trump to drop his threats to disrupt border trade after days of hold-ups on the frontier.

Describing the U.S.-Mexico relationship as a top priority, U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue told a news conference the United States should exempt Mexico and Canada from steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by Trump last June before its Congress approves the deal struck to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

“That is why we are the first out of the gate to warn against the disastrous consequences of closing the U.S.-Mexican border,” Donohue said, sitting next to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who warmly applauded his speech.

Mexico is the United States’ second biggest export market, and third biggest trading partner. U.S.-Mexico trade is worth about half a trillion dollars a year.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-usa-business-energy/mexican-u-s-business-leaders-unite-to-rebuke-disastrous-trump-border-closure-threats-idUSKCN1RO228?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews

Notable: 70+ MPs sign letter, attempt to get JA sent to Sweden to face "justice" re rape charge

More than 70 MPs have signed a letter urging the home secretary to ensure Julian Assange faces authorities in Sweden if they request his extradition.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47917325

https://twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/1116791087585091584

It's an awful lot of Baronesses up against him in this on the twitter letter list huh?

Notable: Missing T tweet vs Missing T Q

>>6159336 pb DJT Tweet Missing T

Q post 3109 ~ 'SRIKE' will be FAST indicating @Jack target

Looks like @POTUS is telling us IT'S ON ~ STRIKE, I MEAN!

WRWY!

Notable: Watch: @USArmy paratroopers conduct an airborne operation exercise in Slovenia

#USArmy paratroopers assigned to @173rdAbnBde conduct an airborne operation and provide suppressive fire during exercise Eagle Sokol at Cerklje Drop Zone in Slovenia.

#ArmyLife

twitter.com/USArmy/status/1116915295942258689

Notable: Clintons sit next to a fern and flap their gums in Detroit

The Clintons dish on White House, Wikileaks and TV binges in Detroit

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/the-clintons-dish-on-white-house-wikileaks-and-tv-binges-in-detroit

Notable: Axois deleted tweet archived

Axios deleted tweet.

http://archive.is/lI61R

Notable: PB Sex Trafficking Suspect list from IIhan Omar's District; DIGG ANONS

Updated to point out the Muslim Brotherhood Bitch in Congress.

https://gellerreport.com/2019/04/child-sex-trafficking-ring.html/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Notable: 58 Suspects in child sex sting dig (Geller Report)

Some additional good reading on the sting at the link.

https://gellerreport.com/2019/04/child-sex-trafficking-ring.html/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Notable: Israeli jets struck a military base near Masyaf in Syria's Hama Province

At Least 3 Injured as Israeli Jets Hit Masyaf in Syria's Hama Province - Reports

Explosions were heard Saturday in the countryside near the Syrian city of Hama, Reuters reported, citing local media.

Syria's air defences intercepted missiles in the city of Masyaf, near Hama, Syria's state television said, as cited by Reuters. Local netizens posted alleged footage of the interception on social media.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904131074091823-explosions-head-countryside-syria-hama/

Notable: DJT: In New York State, D's blocked a bill expanding College Tuition for families…

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116911640568573952

Notable: >>6159122, >>6159211 Healthy dose of autism applied to NSA Q of Clubs tweet

>>6159122

that upper left corner doesn't look right at all, people are different sizes and it's throwing me off

Notable: DJT Tweet Missing T

Missing T

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116907128445394944

Notable: Huawei wikileaks doc from 2004

Old or not, this is topical.

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/support-letter-to-huawei-from-cdb-2004.png

Notable: >>6159288 DJT: Another Fake Story on @NBCNews that I offered Pardons…

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116907128445394944

Notable: >>6159303 Mt Vernon Politico Fake News Dig

OK, Anons check this out.

The story that Mt. Vernon is debunking relates to Trump supposedly making a bunch of ridiculous claims on a Mt Vernon visit last year.

Post from Wednesday:

>>6126527 (pb)

There were actually two related stories, and I suspect they were a WH SETUP…. to bring FAKE NEWS about the MACRON VISIT LAST YEAR into the spotlight.

WHY?

Because the "Let's Roll!" meme with the pic of Michael Anton cooking at the State Dinner for France on THAT VISIT visit has been highly marked as the GO signal for the Q army. (And part of the meaning of that is about trolling the fake news…)

Note how the tweet also says "Thank you Mt Vernon"

As is happens, ALSO on Wednesday, DJT tweeted a "Thank you Texas" video.

This post on that is linked from that same Mt Vernon "fake news" post:

>>6126088 (pb)

Basically, I suggested that the "Thank you Texas" vid was mirroring the "Thank you Asia" vid that had a "Q" "red carpet rollout". This term is ALSO linked to the state dinner for France in the drops from 24 April 2018. Also, there seemed to be NO other tweets since Q started that thank a geographical region, but now we've got the Mt Vernon one.

Series of links from tweet…

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116898703682543616

https://twitter.com/mVespa1/status/1116145996743024646

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/04/10/busted-mount-vernon-debunks-politicos-fake-news-story-about-trumps-visit-to-wa-n2544609

Notable: Country singer arrested over fake real estate deal

Local country singer arrested over fake real estate deal

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article229172909.html

Notable: Scalia re: independent counsel statute, "But this wolf comes as a wolf."

Scalia with regard to independent special counsel, "…But this wolf comes as a wolf"'''

From 1989 Whistleblower memo written by William Barr

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/1989/07/31/op-olc-v013-p0207_0.pdf

Notable: DJT: A Fake Story by Politico. TY Mount Vernon!

>>6158830

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116898703682543616

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/04/10/busted-mount-vernon-debunks-politicos-fake-news-story-about-trumps-visit-to-wa-n2544609

Notable: >>6158742 DJT retweet: How is [Ilhan Omar] walking the halls of Congress

New Retweet

https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1116757289245872128

Notable: Choe Son Hui promoted to first vice foreign minister in NK (NKNews.org)

https://www.nknews.org/2019/04/choe-son-hui-promoted-to-first-vice-foreign-minister-state-media-confirms/

Notable: Kim Jong Un said that he will wait “until end of year” for US to be more flexible (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-gives-u-s-to-year-end-to-become-more-flexible-idUSKCN1RO2PI

Notable: DJT: Finally, great news at the Border!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116894304063107072

POTUS TWAT

Notable: >>6158618, >>6158634 DJT tweet 3 Min Delta added Comma

Same tweet 3 min Delta

Notable: DJT: "Thank you Jeh, so well stated!"

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116892526533857280

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1116712395844587521

Notable: U.S. slaps sanctions on four shipping firms, nine ships, carrying oil from Venezuela

U.S. slaps sanctions on four shipping firms, nine ships, carrying oil from Venezuela

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday announced more sanctions on shipping companies transporting oil from Venezuela, blacklisting four shipping companies and nine vessels, some of which the U.S. Treasury Department said carried oil to Cuba. The U.S. Treasury identified the firms as Liberia-based Jennifer Navigation Ltd, Lima Shipping Corp and Large Range Ltd, and Italy-based PB Tankers S.P.A. It blacklisted one tanker belonging to each of the Liberian firms and six owned by the Italian firm.

A Treasury statement said Venezuela’s oil sector continued “to provide a lifeline to the illegitimate regime” of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. “We continue to target companies that transport Venezuelan oil to Cuba, as they are profiting while the Maduro regime pillages natural resources,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in the statement. “Venezuela’s oil belongs to the Venezuelan people, and should not be used as a bargaining tool to prop up dictators and prolong oppression,” he said. The sanctions prohibit dealings with the firms by U.S. citizens and block the companies’ financial interests in the United States.

A week ago, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on 34 vessels owned or operated by Venezuelan state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A, or PDVSA, and also on two companies and a vessel that delivered oil to Cuba in February and March. PDVSA nevertheless shipped 1 million barrels of oil to Cuba after the last round of sanctions, according to a PDVSA document and tanker tracking data. Last week’s sanctions came on top of a previous round in January targeting PDVSA itself.

The United States and most Western nations have recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the rightful president of Venezuela. Guaido invoked the Venezuelan constitution to assume an interim presidency in January, arguing that Maduro’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate. Maduro argues Guaido is a puppet of the United States attempting to oust him in a coup. Venezuela’s Foreign minister Jorge Arreaza this week said the OPEC-member nation plans to “fulfill its commitments” to Cuba.

Venezuela has long sent subsidized crude to Cuba. The United States describes the arrangement as an “oil-for-repression” scheme in which Havana helps socialist Maduro weather an economic crisis and the power struggle with the opposition in exchange for fuel. Cuba has said it will never abandon its ally even as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration threatened more sanctions.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-usa/u-s-slaps-sanctions-on-four-shipping-firms-nine-ships-carrying-oil-from-venezuela-idUSKCN1RO29D

Notable: DJT: If the Radical Left Ds suddenly don't want Illegals, then why…

DJT Tweet

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116891452003557376

Notable: SoftBank bends the knee to U.S. govt

SoftBank picking its battles with U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — SoftBank Group Corp. has agreed to give up board seats and access to sensitive information, take a more passive role in startups and make other concessions to get government clearance for its technology deals, as the Japanese investor confronts a new U.S. law aimed at cracking down on foreign investors.

SoftBank’s investment style has made it a frequent visitor of a U.S. government group known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), charged with reviewing foreign investment for national security and competitive risks.

“We know the deals are going to be reviewed,” Marcelo Claure, chief operating officer of SoftBank Group Corp, said in an interview with Reuters this week. “We have abided by what the U.S. government wants.”

SoftBank likes to take large stakes in companies working on artificial intelligence, data analytics, financial services and self-driving cars — technologies increasingly viewed as critical to national security. This puts them in the crosshairs of a law signed by U.S. President Donald Trump last year expanding the powers of CFIUS.

Giving up board seats and access to private information would make SoftBank less of a threat in the eyes of CFIUS, giving its deals a better chance of approval.

“We would not accept this if we were in the business of running companies,” Claure said of the concessions. “We’re not. We are in the business of investing.”

Claure declined to provide specifics on investments where SoftBank has had to make concessions or give up board seats, and the U.S. government does not comment on CFIUS reviews.

The regulations have deterred many foreign investors from even attempting investment in U.S. tech companies.

“Everything is a conversation with the government so you figure you are going to pick your battles,” Claure said.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005670942

Notable: AOC trying to suggest Trump is holocausting Ilhan Omar

AOC is seriously trying to suggest that Trump is trying to carry out a Holocaust

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1116850103011037184

She even tagged the Holocaust Museum

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1116851406340628480

twitter.com/AOC/status/1116848329776934912

[archive.is/b8qmg]

Notable: 9th Circuit upholds POTUS's asylum-seeker policy

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/04/12/ninth-circuit-issues-stay-on-ruling-blocking-trumps-policy-to-force-asylum-seekers-to-wait-in-mexico/?slreturn=20190312215826

Send em back

Notable: >>6158235 @NSAGov [Q]ueen of Clubs tweet, 4/12/19 digits add up to 17

https://twitter.com/Mamadidntraise/status/1116884983619022848

Notable: >>6158103 GE Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to resolve claims involving subprime residential mortgage loans

General Electric Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion Penalty for Alleged Misrepresentations Concerning Subprime Loans Included in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities

The Department of Justice today announced that General Electric (GE) will pay a civil penalty of $1.5 billion under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) to resolve claims involving subprime residential mortgage loans originated by WMC Mortgage (WMC), a GE subsidiary. WMC, GE, and their affiliates allegedly misrepresented the quality of WMC’s loans and the extent of WMC’s internal quality and fraud controls in connection with the marketing and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). FIRREA authorizes the federal government to seek civil penalties for violations of various predicate criminal offenses, including wire and mail fraud where the violation affects a federally insured financial institution.

“The financial system counts on originators, which are in the best position to know the true condition of their mortgage loans, to make accurate and complete representations about their products. The failure to disclose material deficiencies in those loans contributed to the financial crisis,” said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt. “As today’s resolution demonstrates, the Department of Justice will continue to employ FIRREA as a powerful tool for protecting our financial markets against fraud.”

‘’’General Electric Capital Corporation (GECC), then the financial services unit of GE, acquired WMC, a subprime residential mortgage loan originator, in 2004. WMC originated more than $65 billion dollars in mortgage loans between 2005 and 2007. WMC sold the vast majority of its loans to investment banks, which, in turn, issued and sold RMBS backed by WMC loans to investors.’’’ The United States alleged that a majority of the mortgage loans WMC originated and sold for inclusion in RMBS in 2005-2007 did not comply with WMC’s representations about the loans, and that certain of WMC’s representations were reviewed by, approved by, or made with the knowledge of personnel from GE or GECC. Investors, including federally insured financial institutions, suffered billions of dollars in losses as a result of WMC’s fraudulent origination and sale of loans for inclusion in RMBS.

‘’’In particular, the United States alleged that in 2005-2007, WMC attempted to increase its profits and meet profit goals by increasing originations.’’’ WMC loan analysts responsible for underwriting mortgage loans were encouraged to approve loans in order to meet volume targets, even where the loan applications did not meet the criteria outlined in WMC’s published underwriting guidelines, and received additional compensation based on the number of mortgages they approved. At the same time, there were significant deficiencies with respect to WMC’s quality control, which was viewed by some as an impediment to volume. In 2005, a WMC quality control manager described his department as a “toothless tiger” with inadequate resources and no authority to prevent the approval or sale of loans his department had determined were fraudulent or otherwise defective. By late third quarter 2006, managers responsible for quality control and risk management at WMC and GECC had expressed concerns that WMC’s quality and fraud controls were so lax that WMC received more mortgage applications containing fraud or other defects than its competitors. As a member of GE’s Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) involved in audits of WMC observed in April 2007, WMC “jacked up volume without controls.”

Notable: Square Inc (SQ) President, CEO & Chairman Jack Dorsey Sold $5.1 million of Shares

Square Inc (SQ) President, CEO & Chairman Jack Dorsey Sold $5.1 million of Shares

https://www.gurufocus.com/news/852931/square-inc-sq-president-ceo–chairman-jack-dorsey-sold-51-million-of-shares

Notable: Shootout with human trafficking suspects send 4 ICE agents to hospital in Phoenix

https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1116879886524796928

Notable: Robert Kraft doesn't want sex tape released, says "Invades privacy"

https://www.breitbart.com/news/lawyer-video-of-sex-act-invades-robert-krafts-privacy/

we know they recorded many

what if Q team is using this against them?

Notable: Former RI lawmaker sentenced in bank fraud case

State-level government criminals in the crosshairs? Let's hope! RI needs to be rescued, and fast.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – A former Rhode Island senator will spend two years behind bars in what prosecutors called a staggering and elaborate case of bank fraud.

In 2018, James Doyle pleaded guilty to swindling three banks out of nearly half a million dollars through a check scheme that lasted from 2013 to 2016—while he was serving as a state senator.

On Friday, Doyle's lawyers asked for home confinement, but the judge believed the crime deserved prison time, sentencing the 46-year-old to two years.

Doyle took a moment during the sentencing to apologize to those affected by the scheme. "You can't blame anybody but yourself when these situations occur,” said Doyle. “I let a lot of people down."

On top of spending two years behind bars, Doyle was sentenced to 3 years supervised released.

He must also pay $426,000 in restitution back to those banks.

Doyle said in court Friday that he accepts the ruling and is ready to serve his time and move on with his life.

"Believe it or not, I know it's tough, but I am at peace today,” Doyle said.

Doyle will self-surrender to begin his term April 30th.

©WLNE-TV / ABC6 2019

http://www.abc6.com/story/40300779/former-ri-lawmaker-sentenced-in-bank-fraud-fraud-case?fbclid=IwAR1AOqzCSqYFw9mZaHOuyWoFqsYK_u2pjPOUcvhR_JN7ywuAEphsiwr-KVM

Notable: @TomFitton: DJT Vindicated and HRC Implicated! #SpyGate

https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1116876726460657664

Notable: >>6157921 Hate Hoaxer Jussie Smollett chilling in Hawaii?

From the looks of things the “Empire” star is on vacay with his family. Photogs caught him laughing it up and catching some rays in paradise. And he was even snapped boogie boarding!

Hilarious Race Baitor Jussie Smollett Hawaiian Getaway

Notable: Dem Town Halls on CNN low ratings crushed by Fox and MSNBC

Fake news is losing viewers.

https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1116871125731020800

Notable: >>6157790, >>6157875 Transcripts from Rep Doug Collins, full PDFs

Anons

All Transcripts released by rep Doug Collins

here's the link in caes you don't trust these pdfs

https://dougcollins.house.gov/search/node/Interview%20of%3A

Notable: Hannity weighs in on Ilhan Omar's "New Low"

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116868679587770368

Notable: Brazil’s Bolsonaro says Holocaust can be forgiven, mustn’t be forgotten (sputnik)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Says Holocaust Can Be Forgiven, Mustn’t Be Forgotten

The Brazilian president is a strong supporter of Israel and is said to have good relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that he believes the crimes of the Holocaust can be forgiven, but measures must be taken so that such a thing never happens again.

"We can forgive, but we cannot forget. That quote is mine. Those that forget their past are sentenced not to have a future," he said, speaking at a meeting with evangelical pastors in Rio de Janeiro, according to The Times of Israel.

He added that actions are needed to make sure the Holocaust will never be repeated, to the applause of the audience, the report says.

The recently elected right-wing Brazilian president is believed to be a staunch Israel supporter, having good relations with the right-wing Netanyahu.

Earlier in April, Bolsonaro, alongside Netanyahu, visited the Holocaust memorial in Israel. During his visit to the country, Bolsonaro and Netanyahu signed a number of agreements, including papers on defence, cybersecurity and police cooperation. Bolsonaro also announced his decision to open a trade office in Jerusalem. Earlier in January, he vowed to move Brasilia's embassy to the city; however, the latter move appears to be on hold, according to the Times report.

During the reign of the Nazi Party in Germany, some 6 million Jews were killed in a genocide known as the Holocaust, as well as some 7 million Soviet civilians, 2 million ethnic Poles and a large number of victims from other groups, including gay and disabled people.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201904131074092606-jair-bolsonaro-holocaust-forgiven/

Notable: >>6157522 Brennan's Career of Treachery (russia-insider)

The Untold Facts of John Brennan's Career of Treachery

Brennan's fingerprints are all over the RussiaHoax. Expect major attacks like this one against 'Mr. Deep State' himself, the man who epitomizes the out-of-control US security state.

Let’s get something clear from the start. In 1976, in his 20s, John Brennan was a card carrying communist who supported the then Soviet Union, at the height some might say of the Cold War, so much so he voted and assisted Gus Hall, the communist candidate for President against a devout Christian, Jimmy Carter who ultimately won the Presidency.

Yet under four years later, just after the then Soviet Union invaded, just weeks before, Afghanistan and months after the tumultuous Iranian revolution of 1979, which at the time many thought the Soviet Union had a hand in, Brennan was accepted into the CIA as a junior analyst.

https://russia-insider.com/en/untold-facts-john-brennans-career-treachery/ri26740

1/2

Notable: Papa D recounts DIA officials probing questions, Alexander Downer spying

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1116867463243653120

Notable: Updated DOD Transgender Policy Based on Treating All With Dignity

Updated Transgender Policy Based on Treating All With Dignity

https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1813248/dod-official-updated-transgender-policy-based-on-treating-all-with-dignity/

Notable: >>6157596 Clockfag update, clocks from past week

Clocks from the past week. Just the final versions.

JA and SR. On the clock.

Sudan on the clock.

Barr on the clock.

Dark to Light.

Notable: >>6157536 Anons muse on Sanctuary City illegals 4d Chess trap

It's a classic Catch 22 for the Dem's.

They designated the sanctuary cities for just this reason. They're illegal cities but they claim they're legal and they should have no beef taking in all the illegals, right?

Lib idiots.

They've been backed into a corner by Trump.

They either accept them or they expose the scam the sanctuary cities are.

(((☆Brilliant☆)))

Notable: Feinstein (D-Beijing): Give up your guns because muh NZ

Feinstein still pushing New Zealand as a reason to infringe on our 2nd Amendment

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Notable: Sundance Film Festival co-founder faces child sex abuse charge

Sundance co-founder faces child sex abuse charge

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/sundance-co-founder-faces-child-sex-abuse-charge/1915500641

Notable: Russia slams British claims that London worked to stabilize Libya.

“Beautiful In Every Way Imaginable”: Russia Slams British Claims That London Worked To Stabilize Libya

During a April 11 press briefing Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mariya Zakharova made detailed remarks regarding the current situation in Libya and British calims that London has worked to stabelize the country (source):

Confessions of British Foreign Office minister on Libya

Speaking about Libya and the roots of today’s extremely difficult situation, I couldn’t help but see what I consider as an outstanding statement in every way recently made by Mark Field, a UK Foreign Office minister who temporarily oversees the Middle East dossier. During the debate in the House of Commons, he agreed with the arguments of his Labour opponents about the “calamitous” consequences of the British invasion of Iraq and Libya and said the following: “Although the UK played a role in trying to ensure that there was further planning for a Libyan-owned, UN co-ordinated stabilisation effort, that did not come to pass in the way we would have liked. There were clear early successes in the immediate aftermath of 2011 that were not sustained. ”

This statement is beautiful in every way imaginable. It turns out that the introduction of a no-fly zone, coupled with pinpoint bombardments, including on facilities critical to the state infrastructure, is now modestly called “a role in stabilisation effort.” The “effort” apparently implies unceremonious interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, overt support of an anti-government coup and, naturally, public lynching and mockery on the body of a national leader who was only recently accepted by those who later shamelessly gave orders and actually sentenced Muammar Gaddafi to death. Speaking about the scenario they would have liked, obviously, that was a reference to a transformation of Libya, which is extremely rich in natural resources, into a hydrocarbons supplier fully controlled by the West with a puppet government “recognized democratic” in words. Apparently, this was the scenario the West would have liked to see implemented, only something went wrong.

Frankly speaking, what is happening now, including around Venezuela is of course completely different; yet the methods used are very similar to the drama that unfolded in Libya: attempts to convince everyone of the need for democratisation, a concentration on the country’s blunders, including economic ones within implementation of its internal policy, using a whole range of pressure tools and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign Libya, relying on those welcome and sanctions against the unwanted. That came unexpected for most countries. The world is watching in amazement what is happening in that country. The question is, is this another blunder? But one has to answer for their blunders.

The problem is that the people who wrote these scenarios, including for Libya, turned out to be mediocre. Apologies have not been uncommon in the British political culture lately. In fact they are made quite often because there is no real remorse behind them. Remember, Gordon Brown apologised for the shameful migrant policy that sent many destitute and orphaned Britons to the colonies for several decades in the 20th century. They apologised for the slavery in the past. Modern UK politicians have also repeatedly apologised. Remember Iraq? Now it’s Libya’s turn, only they didn’t apologise, but said they failed to ensure it goes according to the scenario planned for that country. How many more places on our planet will be forced into these dramatic scenarios with non-dramatic apologies afterwards?

Only faced with an acute socioeconomic crisis, primarily caused by the uncontrolled flow of migration, our Western colleagues began to look for ways to evade any threats or complaints.

One must keep in mind that all those who drafted the scenario for Libya – the politicians, experts, representatives of the executive power of Western states – feel fine, and are as rich and prosperous as ever. But millions of direct and indirect victims of those decision-makers are paying the price for their mistakes, paying their own lives and the lives of their families and friends.

https://southfront.org/beautiful-in-every-way-imaginable-russia-slams-british-claims-that-london-worked-to-stabilize-libya/

http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3612738

Notable: Human trafficking awareness raised for the Masters.

>>6156358

higolffag reporting from Augusta.

https://www.wjbf.com/news/csra-news/human-trafficking-awareness-raised-for-the-masters/1905737995

Notable: Maggie Tweets about POTUS' praise of his daughter Ivanka.

Inside Ivanka’s Dreamworld

The “first daughter” spent years rigorously cultivating her image. But she wasn’t prepared for scrutiny.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1116841280112402439

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/ivanka-trump-job-white-house/586972/

Notable: US Marines: "Blazin' Hot"

Blazin' Hot

twitter.com/USMC/status/1116853504772071424

Notable: Attorney requests WH security clearance applications of Obama era-senior advisors.

Attorney Requests WH Security Clearance Applications Of Obama Era-Senior Advisors

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An attorney representing a White House civil servant being scrutinized by the House Oversight Committee wants the security clearance applications of senior Obama White House staff including Valerie Jarrett, Jay Carney and Ben Rhodes. The White House security application of National Action Network President Al Sharpton was also requested.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee Mark Meadows sent a letter Friday to Committee Chair Elijah Cummings to redirect his security clearance process investigation to the previous administration. According to Jordan and Meadows, Rhodes — a former senior national security and foreign policy advisor for the Obama administration — received a high-level security clearance “despite a questionable background investigation that may have led the [FBI] to deny him an interim clearance.” The Republican Congressmen wrote: Mr. Driscoll’s request to you is an opportunity to prove that you are not using the Committee to target the President or his senior advisors. We understand that senior officials in the previous administration may have had problems with regard to their security clearance applications. According to public reports, Ben Rhodes, a former senior national security and foreign policy advisor in the previous administration, obtained a high-level clearance despite a questionable background investigation that may have led the Federal Bureau of Investigation to deny him an interim clearance. Similar troublesome issues also may have plagued the clearance process for former senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, among others.

Cummings launched an Oversight investigation into the security clearance process of the current administration early this month, saying Tricia Newbold, a manager in the Personnel Security Office of the White House told the committee the Trump administration abused the security clearance process. As a result, she questioned 25 Trump White House employees who each received a security clearance, one of whom was Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, Jared Kushner, as The Washington Post reported. Newbold claimed Carl Kline, who was White House personnel security director during the first two years of the Trump administration, issued these clearances despite her concerns. “[The Trump White House is] going to basically say that we have no business looking at security clearances and then they’ll say that the president has complete authority to do that. And I agree he has complete authority to issue clearances to whoever he wants,” Cummings told reporters in early April. “The problem is that the process has been severely violated when you have people who—a couple of your employees say should not be getting these clearances. In some instances, because of criminal activity,” he added.

In a letter to Cummings and the Committee, Kline’s attorney, Robert Driscoll, wrote about his client’s concern about the course of the investigation, saying that the chairman issued a “sensational press release and memorandum with cherry-picked excerpts of sensitive and highly personal closed-door testimony” after interviewing just one witness — Newbold. Meadows and Jordan say that Cummings issued the press release without consulting Republican committee members or holding committee vote on the matter while targeting the president and his senior advisers.

Kline, according to Driscoll, was subpoenaed by the Committee for an April 23 deposition hearing, though he previously offered to appear voluntarily. However, in his letter to the Committee, Driscoll requested a withdrawal of the subpoena of his client “in substitution of a subpoena for White House records the Committee wishes to have Mr. Kline testify about.” Driscoll continued: However, if the Committee insists in proceeding with the subpoenaed testimony, I must prepare Mr. Kline without knowing your questions or the permitted areas of testimony. Thus, I must prepare him to respond to what I presume will inevitably be direct and implied accusations from this Committee that his conduct assessing security clearance issues—a non-political job responsibility he has carefully performed for decades—was either improper or inconsistent (or both) with longstanding bipartisan practice.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/requests-wh-security-clearance-obama-era-senior-advisors/